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In reply to the discussion: so people didn't get my post about guns [View all]bongbong
(5,436 posts)9. Fantasy land
> involuntary commitment of people who are believed to be a threat to self or others would take much less time
Oh, yeah, that's realistic. It's a mental health issue, not a gun control issue. Sure.....
Who's gonna lock up the loner who has 20 guns and is ready to snap. He doesn't talk to anybody, in fact, nobody even knows the strange guy who lives in that house down the block. What are you gonna do, lock up everybody who might be mentally ill? Now multiply and mutate that scenario by thousands/millions and you have the current USA.
I love how complete fantasies like that are "more reasonable" than stricter gun control to Delicate Flowers.
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Depends on if you subscribe to Scalia or Souter/Breyer/Ginsburg/Stevens school of thought
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#33
You've got that right. Former Justice Stevens did all but come right out and say this
byeya
Dec 2012
#35
Mustard gas has never been in general use by civilians, though it is easy to make
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#39
Because we don't want to look at the source of the problem. Because ranting about a simplistic
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#23
Thanks. My real worry is that the outrage of the moment will instigate actions that will destroy
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#54
The only thing on Friday the handgun ban maybe would have stopped was the suicide
Marrah_G
Dec 2012
#46