re: Why mass shootings are so polarizing

Is post purposely dripping with irony or no?

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Exactly. Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Norway, despite all the restrictions in the world. Dude literally started a frickin farm to get fertilizer to build bombs. Nothing is ever gonna stop a determined madman

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I don't know anything about that case, but agree that there will be outliers that get past any sort of mental health checks and guns, etc.

We as a society barely do anything for mental health issues other than accept it as something different now. Even that is more of a liberal/progressive thing. However, these nutjobs killing people come from all sides of every spectrum. The only solution is to make it easier to get someone institutionalized that is a wack job. This sort of determination should come at the examination by at least 3 separate doctors who have been deeply vetted and accepted by any and all sides as not having any outside political or otherwise abnormal influences.

In short, the perfect solution has to do with mental illness and absolutely to do with guns. Only dumbasses would disagree.

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The problem isn’t the loss of the nuclear family

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I disagree here. I think the decline of the nuclear family has led to the decay of society and morals more than anything else in the past 50 years.

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Because it’s something we can’t control.

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We can control it. Go look at other countries that had mass shootings. They immediately changed the laws and haven’t had anymore.

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Because the presence or absence of a gun had no bearing on this kids mental state. It’s insane to think otherwise.

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You’re correct but why is it so easy for a clearly deranged person to have access to a gun? Just about all of these mass shootings are done by someone with clear signs of mental illness, and yet they somehow keep finding the one tool that enables them to kill a whole bunch of people in a short amount of time.

I get owning a gun is a constitutional right but it’s pretty clear that Americans as a whole haven’t lived up to their end of the bargain in regards to gun safety and keeping guns out of the hands of people that mean to do harm.

I would agree with this solution, but I’m always afraid that if we give any ground to the anti-gun side, it will be the beginning of the end.

Guns are to the right what abortion is to the left. Both sides believe that the fundamental issue is personal liberty. Both sides believe that any pain/damage/loss that arises from protecting that personal liberty is acceptable, as it is more important to ensure that people using the right well don't lose it than it is to ensure other people don't abuse that right. Both sides believe that if they concede to any restriction of that personal liberty, that it's a slippery slope to ever more restrictions.

Notice that I didn't say that either side is good or bad, right or wrong. Yet it's going to trigger the absolute frick out of people on both sides of the aisle.

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the solution is ALWAYS “commonsense gun control”

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The solution is most certainly common sense gun control.


Staring with repealing the 1934 NFA.