re: If we change gun control, how do we change it?

Great post on the issue from wwtdd

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Another day, another college shooting. Another cry for gun control by politicians and hashtaggers who have no actual ability to control guns. There will guns widely available in this nation for at least as long as anybody reading this post is alive. You think it’s impossible to deport eleven million illegals? Try rounding up 250 million guns and melting them in the giant furnace the EPA never approves. Just like Mexicans, they will make more guns and they will come back. We have Draconian prohibitions on recreational narcotics. We have tens of thousand of armed officers spending tens of billions of dollars a year to make sure that shite is never seen in this land. How’s that going? But, frick, stand on the dead bodies and call for gun control you know wouldn’t work even if somebody White Outed the Second Amendment.

We can’t outlaw single mothers or dads who abandon their kids in utero or Internet chat room antisocial sickness or fricked up cowardly narcissists who correctly assume that mass murder is their only chance to be splashed all over TV like a Kardashian and are determined to reenact Columbine at the local community college for posthumous 24 hour coverage on cable news. We rightfully assume Al Qaeda and ISIS militants are irrational suicidal types hellbent on destruction and we annihilate them without hesitation from the sky because asking to meet at TGIFridays for unlimited apps and a friendly confab seems moot. We smudge them out like bugs. Yet we can’t accept the fact that we have bugs living among us who look kind of like us and who the neighbors will describe as quiet, but good kids. Americans have PBS and fat-free frozen yogurt universally available. We don’t have young men without fathers descending into madness and mass murderer worships on their blogs and websites and their basement rooms plastered with news clipping on their wall next to the guns and ammo nobody knows they possess because nobody cares.

There’s not a single one of these campus killers who couldn’t be pegged in a basic mental health eval a year before the killings. Say, by any chance, are you suicidally depressed about how life keeps handing you lemons? Have you noticed yourself collecting weapons lately to counter the massive conspiracy against you? Are you an 18-30 year old male with a history of mental illness in your family who never gets laid? Do you have detailed maps of the local learning institutions on your wall circled with squares and circles and the words ‘start the killings here.’ Do you own body armor and can you recite the names of previous mass shooting perpetrators cross indexed by name and date and numbers killed? Not a single one of these guys would ever make it to the gate at an Israeli airport just from visual eye and mannerism inspection. But complex problems require quick and futile solutions. Gun control. Also, more kids need the chance to go to college. We’re running out of targets.

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I agree with you on what you have said.

I bet even you would look snazzy in this bulletproof suit

What is the extent of these background checks? Every gun that I have purchased was done so with a state police background check before I could take possession

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What would you change about gun control?

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Make it as difficult to get a handgun as it is to get a suppressor. If you want one, you can get one. It just isn't cheap.

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My opinion is if everyone had a gun there would be a whole lot less crime.

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It worked during the Wild West days.

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Make it as difficult to get a handgun as it is to get a suppressor. If you want one, you can get one. It just isn't cheap.

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How does this change anything? And what makes you think buying a suppressor through an FFL is difficult?

In my opinion most of the people doing this don't really care if they die, most probably want and expect to die. What they want is to be known, feared, respected, and revenge for all the mistreatment they feel society has given them.

I don't really think everyone carrying would stop these things from happening, it might prevent the shooters from killing as many. But I think most would just switch to using bombs more.

I would like to see a required psych evaluation for anyone purchasing the more deadly weapons ( and by more deadly I mean the ones that enable you to kill more people in a shorter amount of time) such as semi automatic rifles. But I also don't think this wouldn't prevent them from doing it, but it might prevent some casualties.

Also, since most of these are performed by young angry kids, a age limit for purchasing some of the more deadly weapons might not be a bad idea.

Anyone know how many of these type shootings were performed by someone over the age of 25?

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There are a few hoops to jump through before you can legally purchase one. I checked a few months ago. Then I shot a 9mm with one and wasn't impressed. My subsonic loads are quieter. Maybe subsonic through a silencer .

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The only hoops are waiting for the registry process which is a joke anyway. The background checks are the same. I'm not sure what hoops you are referring to. The tax stamp and transfer process cost money but not a prohibitive amount.

It's a moot point anyway because there aren't enough crimes committed with NFA items to be statistically significant.