Washington man damages 4 homes in bulldozer rampage, authorities say

[The Straight Story]

24. Well

We can find balance in funding laws currently on the books (and I have posted links before about this and how some states don't do full checks because they don't have the money to put it all into computer systems).

I don't like the NRA, they are worthless assholes with a skewed agenda and a pack of liars.

Balance, to me, would come from us asking honest questions as adults (without the name calling and implications) and seeing what has worked, what can work, and how we could implement it all in way to affect the least amount of people and have the greatest impact.

Background checks are fine - but they are limited. You can buy a gun today and in three years you could be someone who could not pass a check but still have a gun from a prior check.

Better mental health screening. Reduce poverty. Help fight drugs/alcohol which are behind many such crimes.

Guns are not the problem. People are. They always have been since the dawn of time. We have been killing each other, hurting one another, since the day we came into existence here. Blaming guns and trying to restrict them won't solve the problems we have.

We are ignoring the core issues in favor of things that make us feel better. I can't think of a gun law that we have (or could write) that would have stopped the shootings in CT. That young man broke many laws already in place, and having them did nothing to stop him.

Let's work on the issues that create such people. But that might not be so easy and won't make people feel good - some just want to rush in and make more laws and then sit back and say 'well, now I am safe, if someone shoots me they will do two life sentences instead of one and we can track them easier'