How was Aaron Alexis, with psychiatric problems and two shooting incidents, allowed to keep and bear arms?

I want to make a pun about it being hot in my part of the country this time of year, but I wont.

The real answer is because in 1789 there weren't street lights and cops and having a firearm was a pretty good idea on the whole. To say nothing, more importantly, of having just fought a war in order to assert all the other rights (for which purpose, essentially, the right is maintained today).

But that doesn't mean you have an unregulatable (is that a word?) right...read the first half of the amendment.

I'm in Canada and don't really care overall. I just can't believe an amendment over 200 years old and written in a time of relative need still remains completely unregulated. We are allowed guns here too but no hand guns, and no military grade, and rifles cannot repeat more than 3 rounds. Basically if you want a hunting Rifle or target rifle all good. And if you shoot someone (self defence or not) your going to jail for minimum 5 years and lose your gun licence.

Dear Toronto -- You can do whatever the hell you want up there in Canada. We will never give up or right to keep and bear arms in accordance with the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. I am sorry you are not capable of understanding why the amendment is as relevant today as it was the day it was originally introduced. Furthermore, the criminals in this country always find ways to get guns, even more so in the states and cities with the most restrictive gun laws than anywhere else in the nation. Washington DC has some of the most restrictive gun laws in our entire nation.

Private citizens in the US are not allowed to have "military grade" weapons. The weapons leftists attempt to say are "military grade" or "assault weapons," are guns that have features of appearance that make them APPEAR similar, but they are not capable of either automatic fire or burst fire, the only two characteristics that would make them "military grade."

The problem is that the laws we have to keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them either are ignored, or subverted. The Health Information Personal Privacy Act know as HIPPA, was passed to protect personal privacy. Current Federal gun laws require persons wishing to purchase a firearm to undergo a background check to determine if the person fails to meet the qualifications -- including things like not being a convicted felon, not being psychiatrically unstable, and so forth. However, the HIPPA act prevents doctors and medical facilities from reporting on an individual's mental illnesses or medications. Two laws that work against one another. Considering every mass murderer since 1963 has had know mental illness and was under treatment for that illness, the majority of those killers were never reported and were therefore able to purchase weapons.

Instead of fixing the real problem, gun control advocates have repeatedly focused on mass murder events as an excuse to restrict "Assault Weapons," to make it harder to law abiding sane citizens to buy guns and ammunition, and so forth instead of fixing the one problem that has been directly relevant to stopping mass murders -- reporting of psychiatric information to the FBI so as to stop mentally ill people from buying or owning guns.

I am not against all regulation of ownership, but I am against regulation that will not fix the problem or stop the violence while abridging my constitutional rights.

Perfectly encapsulating the real issue.