13230042:Lucas said:
The issue is that it's not a simple fix, and way to many people try to oversimplify things without taking into account both perspectives. I'm honestly interested in hearing how you propose to "keep guns out of the hands of idiots like this schizo cocksucker"
If I had a solution I would've proposed it and won my Nobel Peace Prize by now.
Within that lies the reason why outlawing firearms is absurd. Cocaine is illegal and I'm sure you can go out and score it; putting child proof lids on pill bottles is supposed to keep prescription drugs out of the hands of children; setting a BAC limit for driving should've stopped drunk driving accidents - the list goes on and on. We can't be caught in this fallacy that outlawing firearms is going to stop, or curb crime.
I would venture to say 90% of gun owners have no intent to harm others, regardless of what weapon they own, whether that be a 9 millimeter pistol, or an AR-15. Outlawing firearms won't do much, they're already in circulation anyways and you're going to get it regardless of law. Someone who is motivated to kill others doesn't give two fucks about laws, they're breaking a big one in the first place. I'd say we need a system to monitor mental health of gun buyers but that won't do much, many of these individuals go through the black market to purchase their weapons. And we most definitely don't have enough allocated funds to comb through all of the black market and destroy the arms trade, and by all means the last fiscal move our government needs to make is that.
Maybe what we need is a system built on education and safety and maybe we need to do a better job with the wellbeing of the mentally ill. I'm not saying give them hugs and integrate them into society because that's just absurd and people wouldn't follow that trend. But we need to create outlets, whatever they may be. We also need to quit talking about these shooters and giving them sympathy and attention on a national scale after they commit this heinous, cowardly acts, to a socially retard these outlets are powerful.
On a side note, I wanted to point out that the local law enforcement handled the situation incredibly fast and kept the library as safe as possible under such chaotic circumstances. Knowing the layout of Strozier library the shooter was about 25 yards from creating a tragic massacre.
