Again....But it's never the guns!

[Annik]

Guns violence is a symptom of the real problem. You don't treat cancer with cough syrup.

While I'd agree the additional screening/waiting periods are a good idea, you have the understand that if someone really wants a gun right now, unregistered and untraceable (such as having the serial number filed away, which is not legal), they can do it. The government does about as well with keeping guns out of these people's hands as they do with keeping weed out of my hands.

Finally, and I respect your right to post these things and talk about these things, using an incident like this and trying to tack it onto the NRA instead of the man who was really, truly responsible for it is... I'm not going to say it's wrong, but it's a real kick in the teeth to the people suffering right now. Using horrible tragedies as a soapbox for political agendas is deplorable to me. That soapbox is made of still warm bodies of the innocent. I'm more worried about the families than about the fucking NRA, which did not personally put a gun in his hand, switch off a person's empathy and convince him to hurt people. This is my opinion and only that.