That Pesky Assault Rifle Ban

[Glaug-Eldare]

51. One thing you repeat incessantly

is that we clearly consider all these shooters to be great, upstanding, law-abiding citizens right up until the instant they started shooting. Thing is, most of them were severely disturbed before they ever fired at another human being. The evidence was there that their mental health made their possession of weapons a risk to others, but it wasn't brought to law enforcement and acted upon. Mental illness can make a person with a clean background check dangerous, regardless of whether they'd pass the NICS check or not. I consider this a weak point of our mental health system, and not our gun laws, but in either case these people were not model shooters prior to their massacres. BUT without the information to say otherwise, I'm going to assume the average person is mentally sound.