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Originally Posted by jyl
It seems very hard if not impossible to prevent mentally unstable people from purchasing guns. You have to actually be adjudicated as mentally defective, or have been committed to a mental institution, or otherwise been officially determined to be dangerous. The standards vary by state. We see every couple of months examples of how this system doesn't work. I think there must be ways to improve it, but every time someone massacres scores of people, his friends and family all say they never suspected he could do such a thing, he was a quiet guy, unremarkable, etc.
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Agreed. I think the demons that drive folks to this end must live very, very deep within. Predicting who might "crack" in this manner is well neigh impossible. Casting a big enough net to catch everyone who might would make no one happy.
So, what do we do? "Banning" the implements used would not only do no good, but would also trample on the rights of everyone. Even as an avid gun owner, I would hate to see a society where everyone is armed all the time as an answer to this. So much for both sides' knee jerk "solutions"...