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i am unable to understand how better checks to keep guns from the mentally ill will reduce gun violence.
the major problem is defining exactly how to locate time bombs. Spree killers leave, at best, ambiguous clues that only make sense after the fact. Adam lanza left nothing. he even wrecked his hard drive so cops would be less able to determine why he did what he did.
in fact all people become mentally ill at some moment in their lives - when a loved one dies (or leaves you), when you lose a 6 figure job, or just road rage. sometimes, people end up in jail for life, all because of an action made in the heat of a moment.
OJ simpson is a murderer. what law would have prevented him from owning a gun in 1994?
There is a focus on mental illness because of the newtown massacre, failing to note that CT gun law prohibited adam from owning guns.
people are trying hard to find solutions without disturbing the 2nd amendment. But this is impossible. there is no solution to gun violence, except to eliminate guns.
so if you accept that guns are part of our country, part of our freedoms, then you must accept the tens of thousands of murders that come with them.
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