Aristides

It's reality. About time you recognized it. Are you so indoctrinated that you think a kid getting shot in their school is a natural way to die?

Firearms deaths per 100K population. Texas 14.2, California 8.5, New York 5.3 Only New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii had lower rates than California and New York. Connecticut was in between at 6. Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Wrong. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/controlled-illegal-drugs/fentanyl.html

America, where kids go to school to die.

Particularly a drunk with a semi auto.

Liquor. You can buy an AR15 when you are 18 but have to wait till 21 to have a beer.

Not really, we don't produce heroin domestically and we have never been able to control the flow of that.

We have never been able to control the flow of drugs into the country, all we have ever been able to do is slow it down and occasionally reduce supply. The big difference with fentanyl is that it is easy to produce and dirt cheap compared to natural opioids like heroin.

You can't "control" fentanyl but point taken. We are as bad dealing with drug addiction as they are with firearms.

Meanwhile, dead kids are acceptable. They should just cut the crap and admit it.

The last mass shooting we had was Portapique. Three of the four guns used were obtained in the US. All restricted firearms in Canada. The UK's last mass school shooting was Dunblane in 1996 after which major changes were made to firearms regulations. The last Australian mass shooting was Port Arthur in 1996 after which major changes were made to firearms regulations. The Christchurch mosque shooting was committed by an Australian because he couldn't obtain those weapons in Australia. After which New Zealand made major changes to their firearms regulations. How many mass school shootings have there been in the US since 1996?

Could be. Might be. Anything but the obvious. Yet they were still allowed to legally buy guns. So why isn't this happening in other countries, the pandemic was world wide?

Certainly a truly wondrous thing to the families of all those dead kids.

It isn't complicated at all.

All countries have plenty of mentally ill people including ours but only in the US are they walking into schools and mowing down kids on a regular basis. Why might that be?

When in doubt let the crazy guy buy a gun.

What really rubs me is people like Abbott who has passed 22 bills that a make firearms easier to get in Texas and supporters of this kind of legislation have the balls to call pro choice people baby killers. No one choses to have their kid gunned down in their school. What a pathetic bunch of pricks.

I think that's your gig.

No, I don't think the problem is the gun. The problem is the people who think dead school kids are acceptable collateral damage to justify doing nothing concrete to make sure the wrong people don't get guns. It amazes me that NRA bought politicians can sleep at night. If they are really worried about mental illness they should be seeing shrinks themselves because their illness is criminal. As far as solutions go, background checks that are more than window dressing would be a good place to start. But as far as the gun goes, no one needs guns like AR-15's, they are just substitutes for a short dick. Anyone who needs a semi auto to hunt shouldn't be hunting in the first place because they can't shoot straight. Separate the real men from the posers by using muzzle loaders to hunt like the people who wrote the constitution in the first place. As far as saving America goes, I've come to the conclusion it is beyond saving and it is high time to worry about ourselves.

Background checks which are pretty useless. This guy had no record of mental illness but plenty of evidence he was mentally ill that could only have been found by interviewing people who knew him. There is no way that could be done in three days. Any regulations that do exist have been watered down to make them almost useless, which is perfectly fine with you. This guy was able to buy 2 AR-15's legally a couple of days before the shooting.

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https://nypost.com/2021/05/24/texas-to-allow-handguns-without-permit-or-background-check/ Perhaps you should read your own article. For one thing federal law says a sale can go ahead if a background check is not completed within 3 days. How in depth do you think a check would be with that limitation?

Gee, maybe a background would have discovered that before he was allowed to buy guns. Don't want crazy people to have guns, don't let them buy guns.

Only in your warped world could shop lifting be equated with shooting 19 little kids.

The US already has more people in jail and a larger percentage of its people in jail than any other country in the world. They will keep doing more of the same things that don't work so they don't have to do anything else. These kids are just collateral damage to a warped ideology.