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Originally Posted by jdulej
Not quite sure who you were addressing this to, but I'll toss in my 2 cents. IMO, there is one (and only one) reason why someone commits any sort of violent crime - because they are mentally unstable.
Why not, as a start, require anyone who wants to buy a gun to prove they are mentally stable. 99.9% would pass and go on their way with their shiny new killing machine. The .1 failures are just out of luck.
We don't seem to have any issues adding more and more restrictions to people's right to vote, this does not seem to add that much of a burden to the vast majority gun owner wannabes
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One problem is, somebody may be mentally stable today (if that can even be determined) but after some crisis in the future, they become unstable. And they already own a gun capable of killing 10s of people very quickly.
Perhaps there really are multiple sides to this problem that need to be addressed and one of them is the destructive capability of the weapons people are allowed to own.