Locking up the gun buyer/provider for a couple of decades and seeing the victims' families sue the shooter's family for all of their wealth might give the next guy some pause. |
There is NEVER going to be a national law against guns in the United States. Not with the 2nd A. So why not focus on violence intervention in the communities? Maybe the bake sale moms need to start hosting weekly anti-gun and weapons gatherings with the high school age kids. Teach them there's a better way to solve their problems. |
Is it even legal for a parent to buy a 15 year old a gun? I feel like I’m living in an alternate universe. |
Yup. Maybe we need a Texas-style law to narc out people who don't securely lock up their guns. |
Why limit ourselves? I think we need to get creative and maybe look at a Texas-style law. Allows private citizens to sue gun owners who don't securely lock up their guns and anyone else who helps the gun owner (other adults in the household, gun store owners who sell to people without proper gun safe). $10k reward. |
Oh no I agree 100%. I just hear all these people talking about gun control/reform, and wonder what exactly they are hoping for. |
| In summary to this thread, conservatives value gun sales over the lives of children. |
So is your answer to eliminate all guns? Not sure that would ever fly here. Or how it would even be possible. |
Sigh. How do you know this family, this kid, and this father who BOUGHT the gun was conservative? Re-posting because its really obvious that Oakland County, Michigan is actually one of the only reliably blue counties. Went for HRC in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Gun purchases are not just a conservative thing. I know plenty of liberals with weapons. Bad parenting bought this gun for this kid. Bad parenting allowed him to throw molotov cocktails in his backyard. Bad parenting let him walk into a school and shoot three bright students dead. |
Because that doesn't actually work? As long as someone has relatively easy access to a gun, there is a chance they will solve their problem with a gun. |
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I’m curious that no one here is interested in motive. All the fixation in this thread is on that “what” and the “how”, but no one is asking about the “why”.
That’s not science. |
Or instead of elaborate games, you could just, you know, make everything except hunting rifles illegal and have super strict protocol for getting one of those. |
What motive matters? He walked into a school and shot 11 victims - killing 3. |
Never going to happen. And 'elaborate games' was fine when introducing felony murders across this country. Its time to do something about the mass shooting violence. If we'll never get assault weapons outlawed, then we need to target the PURCHASERS of these weapons. If any murder happens with their gun at a public facility - they need to be charged. Make it so reprehensible to own one of these guns, that they just won't. Or they'll invest in sizable secure facilities like a simple iris or thumb lock for all weapons cases/rooms. |
So you don’t care about what prompted him to do that? There HAS to be a reason. I’d like to know what it is. Why wouldn’t you? |