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Originally Posted by GChief
Correct, but the root cause is still the fact that a person made the decision that this was the way forward for them. They decided to buy, borrow, steal a weapon, they made the decision to aim that weapon at people and they made the decision to pull the trigger with the intent of killing those people. And most of these are planned not a heat of the moment passionate response. While I am all for more control it is disingenuous to not recognize that an individuals decision to kill is not a root cause therefore this is big mental health issue. The argument should be how do we identify these people early and report then, without violating HIPaa. This combined with common sense controls MAY make a difference.
Also in a forum like this everyone is pretty much entrenched in their position and here to voice and defend it. We can have discussions like this one but no minds will be changed.
Until we "fix" the mental health side of this reasonable gun regulations will do little.
Lots-o-pieces to this issue.
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The resistance to "red flag" regulation for irresponsible, irrational, or hostile behavior involving deadly instruments is a major obstacle for the literal "infringement" folks.
The alternative to the communally sensible implementation is the repeal of the second amendment to "disarm" that defense of the indefensible, and I do not see that happening anytime soon (if ever), even with popular support.
I'm in the position of seeing both Chiefs and Ikes viewpoints as valid positions on this issue.