Gun Nuts

[mat-ty]

Guns aside, I have very mixed feelings about them. I want to know why are people doing this. My feeling is its about the information age , and social media. People connecting to fast, being able to get info and communicate with other sick people, and feeling the need to belong to something , even if its evil.

Guns have been around a long time, but this new wave of mass killings has never been like this...

[mac]

Guns kill 30 people each day in murders and 60 each day in suicides. The NRA has convinced low-information conservatives that reasonable gun control will result in the government confiscating their hunting rifles. They will believe that they are trying to preserve the America of 1775--and ignore the fact that they are replicating the Libya of 2011.

[jp5]

and how many people die by car accidents every day?

[techno900]

mat-ty

I think you nailed it. Mentally ill, suicidal, nobodies see a way to be memorialized by committing mass murder. Becoming famous on the internet and other media has gone way overboard. Just look at all the crazy attempts at fame on u-tube. Do something really stupid and a million folks get to watch.

I recently read that some think that keeping the murderer's identity secrete may deter the crazies from committing mass killings since they will not be identified. Maybe so, but I doubt that in our current information age and media frenzy, it can't be achieved, but maybe worth trying.

Then there are the other radicals that kill and sacrifice themselves for a cause. Nothing will stop them except exceptional investigative work and keeping them out of the country where possible.

I doubt that more gun control and or better mental health care will have any impact on the mass killing crisis. I don't have an answer.

And in case some liberals want to jump in with my last statement, I have no problem with background checks for ALL gun purchases including gun shows, but it will never function well enough to solve the problem.

Possible situation. I have a gun and want to sell it to my neighbor. I have had it for years and there is no state or federal record of my ownership. Background check???? Not going to happen very often if ever.

[mac]

Techno--there are no perfect solutions. But there are things that make improvements--which both you and I support.

Most murders are in poor communities, not mass shootings. Many of the guns for those murders are obtained by theft. My son-in-law is on the street in Oakland as a police officer. Very few police officers oppose laws that make it harder for criminals to get guns.

[isobars]

[isobars]

[mat-ty]

And I wish we would start calling terrorist LONE COWARDS , why should these DBs get a cool name like lone wolf.

[boggsman1]

Defensive Backs?

[MalibuGuru]