How could such a tragedy happen after the last time that Congress did absolutely nothing to prevent it ?

Let’s suppose the NRA was closed and the selling of new guns stopped. How many guns exist and what would could should be done about them? @Pherick

@jackjjackson According to the sources I found we have about 300 million guns in the US. Almost one for every man, woman, and child in the country.

What do about them? Let people keep them? I don't have any interest in taking guns from law-abiding people. I would like all guns used in crimes to be destroyed, not recycled back into the population.

Then I wouldn't mind making illegal some of the accessories that can turn "normal" rifles into militaristic looking and acting ones.

Also stricter laws for how guns are kept in the house. Your gun is your responsibility, you need to secure it. If I break into your house and your gun is sitting on your bedside table, then what I do with it afterward is your responsibility to some extent.

@bijouxbroussard
when the shooter is a kid it makes me even sadder... Because I get conflicting feelings towards him.. hate and angry feelings for wasting innocent lives but also sad feelings that the adults surrounding him didn't do their job.

@BitterSweetPotato And he bought the gun legally. That’s the thing. He passed the background check. Another thing; the police took him in alive. The same police who “fear for their lives” when they encounter unarmed black people at traffic stops had no trouble bringing in a kid who’d just murdered 17 people, without harming a hair on his head. Surreal.

@bijouxbroussard And apparently the shooter left a comment on YouTube earlier saying that he wanted to be a "professional school shooter" and the FBI could not reach the identity of the person who commented! You would think the FBI has more capabilities than that! He commented under the same name, It only makes me wonder whether they've given it any importance.. I mean had it been the case, the 17 people would be alive today, specially with all the school shootings that have been taking place, you would think they'd keep their eyes wide open for such indications of more possible shootings.

@Ynotisay 👆 This

@puck61 I think we can agree that it was an horrific incident that has become all too common. So what is the solution? It can't be more guns. Why can't we have universal gun checks? Outlawing bump stocks? Mandating smaller magazines? Grandfathering in existing gun owners and outlawing future sales of assault weapons? Wouldn't preventing just one future mass killing be worth it?

There has to be some common ground for people like you and I on either side of the issue.

@windinhishair Probably not. Stricter background checks and more mental health awareness is about as far as I can go on this. A gun is just tool or a toy. It can do nothing on it's own.

@puck61 I am convinced that unless and until we ban assault weapons again, the killings of children and others will go on and on and on and on and on and on.......

A nuclear weapon is also a tool and can do nothing on its own.

Universal background checks would be a start. We can agree on that.

@Picklebobble2 No... The private schools are populated by kids who will never know what its like to want for anything. And already have a common enemy to join together again.. The regular people..

@whowasthatmaskedman Probably similar to what happens when an anti-gay politician finds out their kid is gay.

@Picklebobble2 I do know that 100% of the young boys in my town who were raped at their school by priests did attend private school.

@Pherick interesting idea. Please remind me, when was last time someone burst into a movie theater, school or home and started injecting people with drugs? 🤔

@VeronicaJane Well if they had tried, everyone could have just injected themselves with their own drugs and the day would have been saved!

@Pherick Thank you, it’s the same kind of logic—“why should anything be illegal because criminals will just break the law anyway !” 😳