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In reply to the discussion: Husband and Daughters Beg For Their Lives in Chilling 911 Calls Placed Moments Before Texas Mom Open [View all]hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)25. Guns should have been removed from the house.
If there was nationwide gun registration then it would not be hard for a mental health warrant or something to trip some sort of thing where they come and take them.
My friend was involuntarily hospitalized in NJ and the troopers showed up at his house and wanted his guns. He could get them back if he wanted.
However in TX there is no gun registration and the pistol was passed down.
In an ideal world all guns would be registered and would have a title like a car.
However people at this point are too paranoid about the gov't then using the titles to confiscate firearms.
I felt that after the Heller decision when the court affirmed the right to own guns that it might make gun owners more secure and less likely to oppose some gun control measures that would not take their guns but would reduce gun violence. I mean the more gun violence the more call for more restrictive gun laws so why would any gun owner oppose them. It would preserve their hobby.
However at this point people are still too paranoid and the gun issue such a winner for some politicians, NRA makes so much money off the paranoia.
But that is what we have to do. We need to make people feel like the gov't is not going to come and take their guns for them to be comfortable with some restrictions that will prevent people from getting killed.
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Husband and Daughters Beg For Their Lives in Chilling 911 Calls Placed Moments Before Texas Mom Open [View all]
Judi Lynn
Jun 2016
OP
More responsible gun ownership. . .until they stop being responsible and shoot their children
Feeling the Bern
Jun 2016
#1
THAT's what you get out of this? That "female domestic violence" needs to be "dealt with"?
SunSeeker
Jun 2016
#6
sure they'll admit it--as long as there's a *man* to blame somewhere up the road
MisterP
Jun 2016
#24
14 calls for disturbances, history of mental illness, one of millions of gun inheritors.
jtuck004
Jun 2016
#3
According to the NRA, everyone should have been more concerned for the gun than their own lives
MrScorpio
Jun 2016
#9
wtf is someone who has multiple suicide attempts, is obviously mentally ill and violent
AntiBank
Jun 2016
#10
That was one of my first thoughts. The husband should have "disappeared" the gun years ago. n/t
patricia92243
Jun 2016
#11
My position is if there is proven violence or a suicide attempt(in this case multiple ones) then
AntiBank
Jun 2016
#30
I agree, but you will get a lot of opposition. See what happens if you propose restricting guns for
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#32
the best way to go is to get Clinton elected, pack the supreme court, roll back heller and move on
AntiBank
Jun 2016
#33
Very hopefull it plays out like that. I think even Scalia would have supported doing something in
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#34
A history of mental illness and multiple calls to the police.People Control, Not Gun Control This i
Sancho
Jun 2016
#16