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In reply to the discussion: I now see the point of the RKBA emphasis on mental illness & not gun control laws [View all]Gregorian
(23,867 posts)39. Healthy people don't hate people. It's that simple.
And they don't make guns to use against each other.
Until we aggressively alter the way we use our taxes, we will have unhealthy people, and therefore a gun problem. But we can turn it around. But it will take a quantum change in how people think.
Just know that Germany passed laws making it a crime to use corporal punishment against children. I don't care if the government is peeping into our homes. This is at the heart of the issue. Either we start turning this world around, or we pass gun laws, and still have gun problems.
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I now see the point of the RKBA emphasis on mental illness & not gun control laws [View all]
bongbong
Dec 2012
OP
Let me grant that point entirely: guns are completely evil and only useful for killing people
Recursion
Dec 2012
#7
Um, are you saying that speed limits actually prevent people from speeding? You obviously
bayareamike
Dec 2012
#52
You do realize you're advocating for the US to have Connecticut's gun laws, right?
Recursion
Dec 2012
#11
Well, I was reserve, not Guard, and since I am law-abiding DC resident I don't own a weapon
Recursion
Dec 2012
#30
We should wait until there are 600m guns here, and then think about limits.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#32
Because I don't want to see honest law abiding people being afraid to live in
former-republican
Dec 2012
#36
This family could afford all the mental health help they wanted. It didn't stop the GUNS.
Squinch
Dec 2012
#4
+1. If the family didn't have guns, it wouldn't have been this kind of execution style slaughter nt
riderinthestorm
Dec 2012
#47
If you think guns MAKE you safe, you're wrong, because you'll devalue other things that will make
patrice
Dec 2012
#53
Amazing how it's the only other option to confiscating/re-registering WMD..
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#63