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Originally Posted by graciegirl
What can be done? How can it be done? Asylums? Who will ascertain who is the potentially dangerous criminally insane? A very difficult situation.
Remove guns and weapons from all homes? Do not sell new ones? That means that people with a moral compass will give up their weapons and not buy new ones.
Pass a law about AK47s? Most people would agree with that, but hard liners of the second amendment would not.
We have tried to work hard and save and buy homes in safe parts of the world. Never felt the need to be armed, but that is changing for the older people who do not hit hard, run fast and even get out of chairs quickly.
This is very complex. This is far more than political.
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What can be done and how to do it? As long as no one becomes proactive with sound doable ideas, there will never be any change.
An asylum? Ridiculous! No one has ever brought that up as a deterrent. Besides, an asylum would be "after-the-fact" and solves nothing.
Remove guns from homes and not sell new ones? That's absurd and that will NEVER happen. As with many things, laws have been adjusted to keep up with changes. The same should apply to this amendment. When the Second Amendment was written, there was no such thing as an AK anything. These weapons were not designed for ownership by the public-at-large. The military? Yes! Law enforcement? Yes! And probably some other venues that aren't coming to mind right now.
Work hard to buy a home in a safe place? That's laughable because there is no such thing. A mass murderer is not targeting older people. No one is immune from being killed when such a person is on the warpath.
So what is the beginning? Universal laws, not just state-by-state. Stringent background checks to include things as innocuous-sounding as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Put a tax on weapons to cover the cost of more intricate methods of checking someone out. Interview neighbors of the applicant. Have a longer waiting period to gain ownership. Have the government buy back automatic weapons.
I'm not saying that these things should be done or would work. But it could be a possible beginning. A change will take a long time -- a very long time to begin working. But we are at the point in this country where we need to start with some changes somewhere.
Yes, the situation is far more than political. Unfortunately, nothing has changed because it
is political. Four mass murders in different parts of the country all within one week's time? We need to stop talking about it and do something. Otherwise, nothing will change.