Sarah, read my post, #837.

Agreed.

It seems we have half our population who believe that majority rule should overrule minority rights. Our Founding Fathers were so much smarter than we are today. They created a system of self governance that didn't exist in their time. It was brilliant. Power Elites have been slowing dismantling it over generations. Remove one Liberty at a time and the People don't seem to notice. Franklin was correct.

If the question is actually “What percentage of criminals legally buy a gun and commit a crime with it,” the percentage is extremely small. The last data suggests that a fraction of one percent of those who commit a gun related crime will legally purchase a gun and then commit a crime with it. Most of those crimes are “crimes of domestic violence,” essentially crimes of passion, and the gun happened to be in the house. If no gun were present, some other weapon, knives, clubs, fists or something else, would have been used instead. While the overwhelming majority of professional criminals will use stolen “street guns” that are cheap but very definitely illegal.

However, if the question is “What percentage of crimes are committed with legally purchased guns” the answer is about six percent of murders – and very few other crimes. Amateurs buy guns at a dealers; which involves extensive paperwork, identification, FBI background checks, and so on. Pros buy guns on the street, where the only requirement is money – or other valuta.

The shooting in Uvalde was appalling. No one wants to see this repeated, but obviously the facts speak for themselves. The only solution is to harden soft targets like schools. I didn’t like the airport changes either, but I did get used to the TSA.

"Your dead kids don’t trump my constitutional rights" ............. .Joe the Plumber

An example of my post #837

You seem very active on this subject, I have asked previously why years ago when you could buy semi auto rifles through the mail, no questions, mass shootings were very rare, what has changed?

Remember the movie, A Few Good Men? "You can't handle the truth!" Jack Nicholson's character Colonel Nathan R. Jessep. Antifa is an anarchist organization whose intent is the destruction of our system of government. Have you been paying attention to the news reports on BLM's leadership? Brother of the leader of the organization being given lucrative security contracts worth huge money. The mansions they have bought, huge salaries, and luxurious living for the leadership using money donated to the organization. Sounds like a lot of greedy criminals to me!

(Tapping on my microphone) Testing, testing. Jim, Jim why haven't you answered my question?

We have become the permissive society!!!

Thou shalt not do or say anything to might upset anybody....taking action to do what is right or correct is just shy of no longer permissible.....regardless the impact/results!

The current wave of lawlessness and the drive to do away with the police being prime examples!

Life has changed. No one ever guaranteed us that everything would ALWAYS stay the same. When (maybe 1950 to 1970) you could buy mail-order guns the population of the US was about 150 million people. Today it is about 350 million. That is one big and powerful change. We did NOT outsource everything to China then. A lot of legal and illegal immigration has happened since then. Diversity is considered to be good, but when is diversity too much? When is population too much? When does too much population outgrow a nearly fixed road system? Just drive on I-75 anytime around Atlanta to answer that
.........Basically, ALL of society has changed since someone could buy a GUN with no questions asked by mail order. Around 1981 all federal mental health institutes were closed. That certainly didn't HELP keep society stable and mass murders down. It's hard to compare one time period that was 60 some years from today, with today, just NOT possible. Gang violence and drug violence barely existed in the era of mail-order guns. In 1981, public schools did NOT have 30 kids in one classroom. Today, the overcrowding prevents almost all of the teachers from keeping order and encouraging learning and success in their students. Most school districts won't raise property taxes to hire enough teachers and staff. The US had a strong middle class around the 1950s. Today the middle class barely exists.
.........There are MANY reasons why society has gotten MORE violent today. When you combine More violence with MORE AVAILABILITY OF guns, you get MORE mass murders. Society has changed and seems more WILLING to accept more Mass murders. I worry about this summer coming up!

If I remember right at one time Antifa's own web site ID themselves as Marxist, "the gulag archipelago" has a line in it We knew we (Marxist) won when the person in the street no longer supported the police. The 6th of Jan group was hardly all a bunch of revolutionaries , certainly a small benighted number thought they could some how change things in the streets of Washington, the greatest numbers by far were upset with the election, but blowing it out of proportion make a better story and fits the narrative

Apparently, we watch different news channels. Remind me when BLM starts chanting "hang Mike Pense" and ALMOST succeeds in overthrowing the US government. Then, I will become seriously worried about BLM.

The goal of Marxism is the overthrow of governments and the installation of communism. That is not revolution, that is sedition and treason. Antifa is hardly a group of revolutionaries, they are thugs. BLM has become a criminal enterprise siphoning money donated by fools.

What about this?

Mass Murder without Guns | National Review

Weapons That Are Most Commonly Used for Homicides

I don't see much difference between Fascists and Marxists. They BOTH end up in a Dictatorship and suck the blood out of the middle class. I am a middle-classist - BOTH the far right and the far left are sickos to me!