re: Active shooter at Allen TX mall

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There’s a big difference between regulated and well regulated

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Especially when most of the laws already on the books are ignored.

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There’s a big difference between regulated and well regulated

Especially when most of the laws already on the books are ignored.

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He completely forgets the key part of the amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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There are about 200,000 therapists in the US right now. There are about 80,000 practicing psychologists.

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If the point is restricting it then you can forget about the therapists.

That leaves psychologists, psychiatrists and psych nurse practitioners.

There's only 45,000ish practicing psychiatrists in the USA. even if you threw in the PNPs It's only another 25,000.

The crazy thing is I totally believe the government wouls attempt to go this route.


But the amount of liability that would be incurred by approving someone to get a gun who then a year later decides to murder someone with it would pretty much cause these professions to evaporate or deny everybody. There would need to be some kind of immunity in place and that's a whole another can of worms in and of itself.


Imagine approving some regular guy with a gun only to be called into court because 2 years later He found his wife in bed with some guy and shot the guy. frick all that.

I talk to my wife about this all the time, who is constantly bombarded with all these dumb moms on FB/Insta screaming about doing something

They've lost all credibility and they'll never get it back

The same people who want "common sense, come on, nothing anti-2A" gun restrictions are the ones who elect and support DAs who refuse to prosecute crime, especially crime that is committed by some minorities against the majority (or other, less in vogue minorities).

Those same people are the types who shifted attention from an event of trans terrorism (with AR-15) against little Christian children to trans rights in the span of hours. They went on TV and promoted the same conspiracy theory that got those children killed before their funerals had even taken place.

I of course never trusted them in the first place, but they're out there in the open showing us how they'll behave if we're disarmed and how they'll allow or even encourage open season on us, so it's a hard no.

It reminds me of the lily white liberal woman who works for some progressive media outlet telling the world that wanting to ride the subway and be free from harassment, threat of violence, or actual violence is just a form of white privilege in the wake of the last incident.

They want you to be completely helpless so you have to rely on the people they put in place to selectively protect you depending on the prevailing political winds or the latest social movement.



It reminds me of the people who will say it's imperative that we ban plastic straws to save the planet but also says it's compassionate to allow people to continue the behavior that produces this in their own backyard:

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So when there was less regulation in the 50's-60's and much less gun violence, is that because guns became meaner and more violent? Is it just guns "born" in the last 20 years that are more likely to kill?

Are you for minimum jail time if you are a convicted felon caught with a gun or a person that uses a gun while committing a crime? Who commits the daily gun violence?

Are you for identifying the groups prone to the violence and putting restrictions on those groups? Speeding/reckless driving kills more innocent people than AR15s by a huge margin. Are you for limitations on certain cars, engine sizes, on driving? @ 50,000 people die a year in auto accidents.

What's your thought on violence in movies, video games, the sensationalism in the media? @18000 people a year are stabbed to death in the US. Mass stabbing in Utah killed 4 people. Is it the person committing the crime or the knife?

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This all day long.

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Brain development is done by this point. You could pick the average age of the typical criminal or mass shooter and add a few years. Idk, get creative, be problem solvers

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I had my first gun at 8. I’d wager a lot of guys on this site are similar.

I never shot anyone. My guns didn’t secretly sneak out, shoot someone, and sneak back in.

I’d bet 80% of the cars in my high school parking lot contained guns. How many shootings did we have? Zero.

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Change the voting, drinking and driving age to 27 and I agree.

How old are you?

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Don't expect consistency out of these people.

They love to pick and choose when someone is capable of being an adult.

You can go kill people overseas in a tank at 18, but you can't buy a can of dip because you're not an adult.

You can't have a drink until you're 21 but you can permanently mutilate your body at 13 because you're an adult.

Asking them to justify all their nonsensical arbitrary age designations is good entertainment, though.

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Change the voting, drinking and driving age to 27 and I agree.

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This is why the Oxford comma matters, dammit.

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Mauricio Garcia was kicked out of Army training in 2008 for mental health issues.

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And there is is, another one who shouldn’t have been allowed to have guns in the first place. If he was allowed to have them I would imagine some sort of evaluation should have been had after being kicked out of the army for mental issues.

That should be a read flag on the background check and a hold out on the purchase. Only way would be buying secondary without a background check, stealing, or straw purchase.