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[JohnnyRingo]

59. Most, if not all, of these shootings are not by gun collectors though.

It seems most of them hatch a suicide mission and go to the closest WalMart or gun show and buy the weapons they need. If volume was indeed a factor, life insurance companies would ask specifically how many guns an applicant owns. They don't do that, and they have the statistics.

I lean more toward mandatory federal screening and especially reinstatement of waiting periods. That would stop many who have past and untreated mental problems and prevent many spur of the moment plans for a shooting spree. These murderers always seem to have a new gun instead of one that has been in the home for years. Giving a despondent potential mass shooter time to rethink their final solution may well save a good number of innocent lives. After all, it's hard to legitimately explain why you absolutely have to have a gun in the next couple hours.

Unfortunately, the NRA disagrees, and thanks for acknowledging what I believe is a moderate view for a solution that is at least workable and within the constitution, as opposed to those who think we can simply "round up all 300 million guns and throw them in the ocean", or what I call an "instant revolution" that I believe would rack up more civilian fatalities than all the mass shootings in history combined.

Common sense gun laws weren't softened in a week, and neither will reinstating them, but we have to head in that direction.