We can solve problems of mass shootings and school shootings! Just implementing some smart ideas!

@rocknroll Do you know that psychology classes in college used to cover the topic of brainwashing? Do you know how to spot someone that has been brainwashed? Do you know that someone who has been brainwashed doesn't even know they have been brainwashed?

@IronHamster stupid people are more easily brainwashed. Not all educated people are smart

@Patriot96 Humanity has some traits all humans should be embarrassed by. In the 60's psycholigists,trying to understand how Hitler took over a modern society, performed several experiments with volunteers. In a nutshell, only 20% of our society at that time was capable of independent thought. I do not have a breakdown on that vs education, but one of the experiments used college students back when admissions requirements were more strict.

@zonavar68 why should we give a shit

@TexChik a liar (aka: YOU) is a liar.

@zonavar68 your country has to ride on the coattails of the US for defense too! You are ripe for the picken to be invaded with the civilians have no guns. Invaders just have your military to be concerned with. The US on the other hand we wouldn’t go so easily cause they would not only have to be concerned with are military but the armed citizens too

@Lisa82 not true. All FFLs must run a background check on gun sales - gun show or not. In the case of private sales at a gun show, some states require the background check, others don't. And the number of crimes committed with firearms that fall into the "gun show loophole" you are referencing is miniscule.

@Lisa82 that just isn't the case

@Lisa82 If you buy from a licensed dealer, the dealer has to have an approved background check before he can sell a firearm or he is breaking federal law. A private individual can sell a firearm without a background check, laws vary, the state I live in, a receipt of the sale must be kept for 10 years.

@SlaveEt It's not implemented in all states, but thank you for commenting!

@Carazaa
Thankfully that is true.

@BizSuitStacy

Many criminals want to go to jail or be shot by police because they simply are suicidal and they do not care at all about any death penalty or prison sentence.

I have spoken to people who do crimes, many
do crimes so they can go to jail. Its better than being homeless for them.
We need to pay for a nice room for homeless and that would help crimes a lot and be a lot cheaper than prisons! Some cities have solved the crime, drug, and homeless problems.

Give the police authority to arrest homeless who are mentally ill or drug addicts and for the judges to put them in treatment with social workers for a year, then give them their own room to live in with continued support groups and social workers to check on them.
That together with smart gun regulations would take care of a lot of crime, drug use, mental illness, and homelessness, and be a lot cheaper than prison and decrease mass shootings.

@Carazaa I think you're a kind person with your heart in the right place. Homelessness is a separate issue from gun violence, so let's not "mix metaphors" if you will.

The mass shooting epidemic is fairly recent in our history. Columbine (1999) was a turning point. Not that there weren't any mass shootings prior to Columbine, but they were exceedingly rare. So what changed?

It wasn't because of too many guns. There were already close to 300 million legally owned guns in the country by that point. If the number of guns was the issue, the mass shooting epidemic would have reared it's ugly head long ago.

It's not the type of guns either. Contrary to the leftwing narrative, the majority of mass shootings (60%) are committed with handguns. They tend to be cases of domestic violence or gang related violence, and tend NOT to be particularly news worthy. And for those who like to point to the AR-15 as the culprit, I'll remind them that that particular firearm has been available to the public since 1963...36 years before the epidemic began. I'll also point out that the Virginia Tech shooting, the worst school shooting in history, was carried out by a nutcase with a 9mm pistol and (17) ten round magazines.

Mass shooters all look for a gun free zone, and a captive group of people confined to a given area, or a huge group of people in a large area where they just randomly shoot into the crowd.

These people are mentally ill, and probably radicalized in many cases. No gun law will ever solve that issue.

@BizSuitStacy police show up after the crime to outline your corpse

@BizSuitStacy boy your very respectful...
And the mass of guns out there were made leagly and just got passed around and flooded market because of lobbying and corrupt politicians.

@Lisa82 I honestly don't quite understand your last comment, but...

Whether you realize it or not, you're just repeating the same anti-gun narratives I've been hearing for the last 40 years. I've heard 'em all, multiple times. But there are simple facts that blow up every single one of those arguments.

The facts in the next few paragraphs come from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report database.

The number of legally owned firearms in the US has roughly doubled since 1993, but the firearm homicide today is about half it was at that time. More guns, less crime. Now, I'm not saying the additional firearms caused the decline, but they certainly didn't cause an increase.

90% of all firearm homicides are committed by a felon. The average number of felonies they have is 4. The vast majority of killers have a violent history. Merely being in possession of a firearm is already illegal and enough to put them back in prison. Do you really think a gun registry is going to stop them? Or getting a firearm license? They can't even pass the background check to buy one legally.

The typical gun recovered from a crime scene is stolen, and on average, was stolen 11 years prior the crime. That's assuming they can determine the serial number.

Lots of ghost guns out there too...firearms without a serial number at all. Many of those come from overseas.

90% of all firearm homicides occur in the inner cities where gangs and drugs are prevalent.

90% of all firearm homicides are committed with handguns. They're easy to conceal. The dreaded "assault weapon" the media's fear porn, accounts for less than 1% of the murders.

The founding fathers were students of history. And they knew authoritarian governments had an ugly tendency to disarm their citizens. Plenty of examples prior to 1791, and plenty of examples afterward. It's never happened in the US because it's unconstitutional. Not that there are politicians out there who would confiscate firearms in the US given the opportunity.

My favorite quote in favor of the 2A. Please think about this:

@BizSuitStacy I'm not saying ban guns. I don't want that... I have lots of guns.

@whowasthatmaskedman
[quote] John Wayne never served in the military in reality and was looked down on by many who did.[/quote]

Donald J. Trump never served in the military either and his dad Fred Trump bought Donald's way out of the Vietnam war draft a total of 5 times, yet Trump isn't looked down upon by the right-wing war mongers for avoiding military service!

@swirlie fjb never served because he supposedly had asthma. Despite playing baseball and football. Your point is?

@Patriot96
I've already made my point. Did you not read my post?

@pdockal we just need better people and not an education system which turns kids into leftist non thinking zombies who think video games and the violence which comes with them doesn’t have a huge negative effect upon the brain.

@therighttothink50

Can't tell if your agreeing or disagreeing with my comments

@AthrillatheHunt Thank you, good idea!

@AthrillatheHunt same test fot voting and a drivers license with 90 day waiting period

@Patriot96 I’m on board w the drivers license but not a test that citizens must take to vote .

@MarineBob

LA is the same size as Sweden around 10 million people! Scandinavian police haven't had any guns for 500 years until recently when more guns have come into the country.

There were [b]8 death a year in Sweden until recently w[/b]hen guns have come into the country, and[b] 10 A DAY in LA [/b]and even more lately probably. There is a direct correlation with number of guns in a country and number of deaths per year!,

Law enforcement are peace officers and need to develop trust in the community, not be scary and shoot people. Just recently have they had guns in Sweden. Of course at times force needs to be used and sometimes a gun is necessary in an arrest.

I do think the police needs to have more power to arrest homeless, and laws to enforce treatments and social workers to help them if they are mentally ill or on drugs.

@Carazaa sweden doesnt have gangbangers and street gangs

@Patriot96 Unfortunately they do now.

@swirlie Progressives want all powerful government. The anarcists want no government. The Right wants the right amount of government, only enough to secure our rights to life, property, and the pursuit of happiness.

@swirlie

Forget it, I'm not a progressive, I'm a guy who's smack dab in the middle. 🙄

@calicuz
Too late, everyone knows now.

@SusiesHubby There were none here in the UK.

@SusiesHubby There were 632 mass shootings in the USA 2023, and 1 in UK. So US has to improve this is not normal. we need to have more control who gets a gun, and help parents and communities raise happy kids instead of mentally ill!

@Carazaa The whole cycle is self perpetuating. The number of gun killings of all types makes people rightly scared and their instinct is to get a gun the protect themselves. The socitey is under pressure and taught to fear and hate by its leaders (Lets not pretend that isnt happening) and a under of people crack under the strain and see the only way to relieve that pressure is to struike out and they pick up a gun and a lot of ammo to make themselves heard.. Changing American thinking is going to be hard and take a long time, even if there was a will to do it. If you dont want your kids to be part of that cycle at some point, find another place to live.😷

@therighttothink50 I didn't know he didn't respect peoples ideas, thank you!

@onewithshoes

How would that stop mass shootings ?????

@onewithshoes So you want to close schools? Home schooling is a terrible idea. The problem is not schools, the problems are mass shootings everywhere because of mental illness, availability of guns, (and in my opinion poor parenting, towns with poor community resources, etc.)

@Patriot96

Not condoning what happened but do you know ALL the facts ?
That's not the police fault ?
Was the DA threatened ?
No bail is stupid & should never have happened

@pdockal no its the liberal dem DA. Not much different in many liberal cities. Criminals get plea deals on lesser charges, gun charges are dropped.
Gangs use juveniles because they get much lesser charges. Its the ciurts causing problems

@Patriot96

then vote them out
but dont blame the guns
dont blame law abiding citizens by making it harder to get guns
dont outlaw guns because you fear them
criminals will always be able to get guns illegally regardless of the laws
i think we should be allowed to open carry EVERYWHERE as long as weve had saftey courses

@Patriot96 the good news is that the 2nd Amendment is part of The Bill of Rights, and not the Bill of Valid Reasons.

@Patriot96 They more than likely won't if possession of a gun automatically leads to a life sentence.
Would you?

@zonavar68 Military,armed forces are different. You didn't really think I meant the military too....did you?

@Strict4u Punishment does not work for criminals, children, employees, or anyone. Problems are not solved by[b] punishing[/b] people, like in russia, N Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, or Nazi Germany, etc. We don't want a fascist authoritarian hell do we? NO! Problems are solved by finding solutions together! What causes people to be mentally ill, to want to own guns, to use drugs, to give up and live on the street?

1. We need to have treatments and good living situations for the mentally ill, drug addicts, homeless, and people who are so
mad that they hate people so much they want to kill people.

2. Many parents don't know how to raise happy successful kids. Instead they yell, hit, lock them up, and punish instead of reward them for good behaviors, role model positive communication, and spend fun times together. We need parenting classes for parents that have no idea how to raise happy kids.

3. We need to give police power to arrest homeless and give them drug treatments and social workers to help drug addicts and homeless.

@LordShadowfire They do have a commander in chief since forever, and it is not the idiot in the White House. The guy with the nuclear football is the fake Commander in chief of the idiots who voted for him. That football is fake and doesn't set off any nuclear weapons. Those bastards running the US war machine are not working for you and me, the American idiots with the power to vote for nothing.

@sree251

@therighttothink50 No security guards can prevent mass shootings and murders.