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Originally Posted by PennBF
Mental exams should be for ones who don't carry arms or try to outlaw them.  |
It will probably be impossible to outlaw guns in the US. There are too many out there now and there are still a lot of protections from taking private property provided by the State and Federal Constitutions. In addition, the NRA will remain a very powerful force in the US.
Having grown up in Reno, Nevada I was rather familiar with guns and their use and abuse having a friend of one of my brother's blow off part of a hand after trying to shoot a gun he found buried in the desert. A very old revolver. Talk about stupid. And a neighbor put a bullet in his head in a suicide because he felt no one loved him. Tragic. If the gun had not been available he would have tried another way. A gun is just a tool like others many of which have been used to kill over the generations.
I still, however, see no reason for rifles and pistols designed for the military to be sold to private citizens. I know it is too late to get the ones that have been sold off the street. But, measures could be taken to control the ebb and flow of such weapons.