High school shooting in Parkland FL

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Because trying to confiscate guns from gun nuts is going I cause many many many times the mass shootings as are currently happening. I mean, duh.

How many mass shootings have been the result of an attempt to confiscate guns? How many attempts (in the US) have there even been to confiscate guns?  How did you gain the ability to see into the future and determine the consequences of an hypothetical attempt to confiscate guns?

Boru

I just take what the gun nuts say they will do at their word. It's sort of like a catch 22. I think one of the reasons there hasn't been is that people understand the real consequences to that.

Would you personally want to go in and have a shootout with these people?

You can't really have it both ways, calling the militiamen who own a bunch of high powered assault rifles crazy, and then expecting it to be some sort of smooth process to take their guns from the thousands of them out there. Anybody with eyes who's watched a documentary about them knows it would be a bloodbath. Advocating gun confiscation is advocating for unprecedented violence in america. Way way more then the occasional shooting.

That is just the unfortunate reality of the situation. To come to a real solution involves working with the nra, not against them. Fighting against them only increased the number of gun sales in america during obama. It's time to deal with the situation as it actually is, not how youd like to imagine it being.

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Because trying to confiscate guns from gun nuts is going I cause many many many times the mass shootings as are currently happening. I mean, duh.

What if it's preceded by a medical/psych diagnosis that says that the person is unfit to bear arms?
Around here, there's a healthy respect for the medical profession, so people tend to take their heed quietly.

I think better mental health care in America would make a bigger difference then trying to confiscate guns, which would be totally counterproductive. Like I keep pointing out, gun sales were at record highs under Obama and are low under Trump. That's the reality on the ground.

Mental health care in this country is terrible and embarrassing. I'm 100% in favor of your suggestion, everyone who buys a gun should go through a mental health screening. If people who fail are found to have guns, they should get free mental couciling in a state hospital. It would be a good start.