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In reply to the discussion: Bad News for the NRA - people are fugging serious [View all]Socal31
(2,484 posts)I guess blood is on YOUR hands if you have ever purchased anything mind-altering from the street. We all know that most of the homicides that are ignored, which number far more than spree deaths, are due to drug crime.
Hell, anyone who has purchased a dime bag of crappy Mexican brick weed has the blood of tens of thousands of people right across our Southern border by your "theory." (Not sure who is smoking that garbage when CA has such quality, but watch Border Wars and that is all they catch).
Your position is a detriment to REAL reform. I dismissed your post as quickly as I would a nutter's post spouting off about how he needs a .50BMG rifle for hunting. And that means that most reasonable gun owners, who include a lot of voting Democrats and politicians, will as well.
No proposal that Biden's committee presents to Obama can guarantee no more Newtons or VTs or Columbines. Every day that we move away from the tragedy, the American public 24hr new cycle causes our amnesia to set in. Right about the time Biden proposes their committee's findings, it will be all fiscal-cliff talk, all the time again. People start to remember that there is a SCOTUS and a large-cross section of responsible, mentally healthy, legally armed citizens, as well as politicians that don't live in SF or NY, and would like to be re-elected.
If we lose the chance to get realistic gun reform passed in this country due to your over the top, (also homophobic, btw), out-of-touch, extreme disarming idea being all that is on the table, then the blood is on YOUR hands.
This is a chance for THOROUGH mental screening of gun buyers. Just like my Dr. would have to notify my state DMV if I had a seizure or dementia, I think anyone diagnosed with a major psychiatric problems should be red-flagged. Not automatically denied, but looked into a little more. The side effects of the crap that BigPharma shove down people's throats alone mean we need more monitoring.
This is a chance for a broader discussion of mental health in general as well. Please don't ruin it with name calling, generalizing, and frankly impossible proposals.