Mentally ill people..

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38. He was a violent murderer

Who was able to kill because he had access to machines designed precisely for that purpose.

It's easy to conclude someone was deranged after the fact. But what good does that do? Oh, I know. It provides you with a scapegoat to pretend that having 300 million guns around has nothing to do with the fact the US has extraordinary rates of gun deaths.

Perhaps we can conclude that anyone who thinks they need multiple guns must suffer from some serious mental problems. They likely have paranoid personalities and a strong tendency toward violence. Why else would they feel a need to own anything other than a hunting rifle?

How interesting you are so eager to draw conclusions about mental illness, but we are to reserve judgment on guns because they are more important than anything else. Guns have such delicate feelings.

I don't know what he gunman's history was, but I know he used guns to murder 27 people. But he himself did not buy those guns, so pretending that creating laws related to the mentally ill would have done anything in this situation ignores the facts of the case.

The idea that you can deal with this problem by taking it out on 25% of the population that has mental illness rather than the gun lobby that does everything possible to arm as many people as possible is yet another attempt to do anything to protect guns above all else.

I can tell you if he had lived, the courts would not have taken any claims of mental illness seriously.