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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Not sure how much of a connection there is between videos and someone killing real people. There are millions of people who play violent video games.
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Not to mention all of us who grew up on Road Runner and Bugs Bunny cartoons, and Westerns on TV, Friday the 13th movies - and our generation didn't turn into a horde of psychopaths.
Mental health is absolutely a problem. We need more funding to combat it, as it isn't merely a matter of mommy telling Junior "no."
We ALSO need more robust enforcement of our existing national gun laws (yes, we actually have them, they're just not enforced efficiently). I also believe that we need to have more -minimum- gun law standards. Leave additional restrictions up to each state, but minimum standards would be - a national database that is continually updated, every time law enforcement agency on the federal, state, or municipal level adds to it, universal background checks using that database, and anyone who goes to a gun show has to have their government-issued ID (drivers license, passport, or state-issued ID, or government agency employee id, for example) scanned on the way in, when they make a purchase, and their ID scanned again on their way out. And just like cars don't kill people - drivers kill people. Guns don't kill people. Shooters kill people. So license them the same way drivers have to be licensed to drive. An eye test, a competency (physical target-shoot) test, and a written test. Renewable every "x" years.