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In reply to the discussion: FUCK THE NRA. [View all]Congrats, you are my first personal insult, carry it proud.
So then a Winchester lever action 10 shot is not fast enough to shoot ten times? Four six shot pistols is not quick enough to shoot 24 UNARMED people? Look, if you aren't going to acknowledge that we have a problem with mental illness and how to treat them, go ahead and blame the boogey man NRA, it is cheap, but it is your right to do so. If you aren't going to see a problem with kids be shot for a pair of sneakers, but would rather used the tool used, that is shallow thinking. We have devalued life in this country, not sure how, but it is obvious. People kill each other for the smallest of reasons, that is the root of the problem.
The problem is that we have taken away society's ability to deal with the mentally ill. If you can't see a huge influx in mental illness in this country you are not being open.
The only way in this country we had to force treatment on the mentally ill was jailing for drugs which almost always goes together. But now with the movement to legalize drugs, we will also lose the same leverage I used on my own daughter.