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They might get 90% percent of the guns from the law abiding people but forget it if they really think they'll take them away from the mentally unstable people. Guns are these peoples tools of their trade. I have to many guns that I bought yrs. ago that I didn't have to register, so I'm not letting new laws take them away from me because I didn't do anything wrong. It's the wacko gun activist that think they're gun experts & want them. If it comes to that, that they pass a law to take guns away & they think it's that easy, then it ought to be just as easy to find the mentally unstable people. How many times have we heard about someone killing someone or groups of people or their whole families & then find out these people were or are under a Dr. care for being mentally unstable, wouldn't you say 80 to 90%? Just my opinion but if they take our guns, like the Chinese said, we can take them over!
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Enough with the references to assault weapons. You cannot buy them.
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Thank you Donald Trump for stating the obvious it's a mental health issue! I think that the German airline pilot took more lives than all of our massacres in the last 20 years.
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That is approximately, .0003% of our population. Maybe it's not as big an issue as we think. Honduras bans it's citizens from owning guns. They have the highest murder rate in the world with 83% of those murders being committed by gun. On the other hand in that same year there were 88,000 alcohol related deaths. Why aren't we hearing cries to regulate or ban alcohol? |
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Mental Health issue not gun issue
Most of these shootings are due to mental instability and most of those were know well in advance. But we as a nation have decided to let these instable people run free in our society. Look at China with the most sever gun controls in the world. They have mass stabbing attacks on a regular basis.
Stop "mainstreaming" treat or institutionalize mentally ill people and mass attacks will drop. |
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Obama advocates the ban of hand guns. It's easy enough to prove if YOU want to read his comments. He said he would like to have Australia's system of gun control. Australia banned hand guns. In order to do that in America, he knows he would have a revolutionary war on his hands. Americans are not going to willingly give up their guns, and rely on the Constitution to back them up. A war against the government is not outrageous when you are positive that you are right and the gov is wrong. The UK banned hand guns and have more than twice the violent crime we have. If you want specifics that are up to date, I bet you will find that their violent crime rate is three times or more times ours per capita. You mention talk. Talk is cheap and does little to remedy the problem if you keep repeating the same thing over and over again. Gun control has nothing to do with violence in America. Guns are protecting millions from being victims of violence. We should encourage more guns, instead of discouraging gun ownership. |
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Alcohol of course has many strings attached to too many levels of politics, industrial and corporate America. So too many in the so called right places have too much too lose, hence there is little or no actions cried for to reduce the alcohol related carnage. We are a very hypocritical society. Another example? We have all heard of MADD (mother's against drunk driving). Has anybody ever heard of MACD (mothers against cell phone deaths)? Of course not. What is the difference? The mothers have little invested in or not involved in the use of alcohol to a level that matters. However, cell phones, they are all addicted to and anything that threatens to take them away is not acceptable. Hence we will never ever see or hear of any action from these same mothers against the death toll caused by cell phone use while driving. Because they are invested in the issue. A cause of death the easily equals drunk driving!!! It is, has been and always will be about special interests groups. |
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"Gun buybacks in cities in America have not worked that well, but they worked like a charm in Australia, so maybe we have something to learn from them." My comment was not meant to be a personal attack on you, but rather a suggestion that you think about it before comparing a totally different scenario to our system. Australia banned hand guns. If America did so, there would be a revolution because our constitution prevents the gov from such action. It was put in place for just such an occurrence of the gov tyranny. Picture soldiers or police coming to your door and demanding that you give up your hand guns. Do you really think that Americans would willingly give them up, full well knowing that the criminal would still have theirs? I don't think so. SO, before folks suggest trying someone else's idea, they might want to do a bit more thinking about the possible negative side effects. |
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For Lives and Liberty: Banning Assault Weapons in America | The Institute of Politics at Harvard University |
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Nevertheless, I'm glad that your statement: "If you think that Australia has such a great idea, then by all means move to Australia." ...was not intended as a personal attack. |
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