(February 21, 2018 at 5:10 pm)Shell B Wrote:(February 21, 2018 at 4:59 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I would love to see Tibs do that (not really). But I think that you literally have one near you proves my point that gun confiscation is obviously not the answer and improving mental health care is. If you improved mental health care maybe these people would give up their guns. If you try to confiscate, you end up with far worse gun violence then the problem you are trying to solve. So good luck with that.
I think you're more likely to encounter a bunch of scared vets without guns after they follow the law and begrudgingly hand them over. There'd probably be a few that hid guns or got extra pissy, but I don't think they'd start a huge shootout, for the most part. This is really demonizing vets with PTSD. I've spent decades of my life around groups of vets with PTSD. They have anxiety, not insanity.
I don't know how anybody can think there would be a voluntary handover of guns in the U.S. without mass violence. Read the links of what nra members say they would do. It's like people want it both ways, they demonize the gun advocates as gun nuts and at the same time say they would peaceably hand over their guns. I mean, that makes no sense.