Police are searching for two active shooters in Odessa, Texas

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Anonymous wrote:So we’re babbling about self-help gurus and videos as an actual “solution”?

And you all just assume that the people committing these crimes have childhood trauma.

Your first step is to learn about the source of the rage and violence.

or - hear me out - we could sensibly regulate the guns that are used to murder pekpme

How exactly would you like to "regulate" the guns when you can't even regulate the border?

Hint: Criminals aren't much interested in your regulations.

True. Was just listening to a caller on the radio. Lives out in the country. Said one night a car pulled into his long driveway. He knew something was wrong. Sent his wife with the baby into a back room, and greeted the car at the front door, revolver in hand. Four men were in the car. They saw the gun in his hand and drove off. Again, there were four men in the car. He only had a six shot revolver but they still decided not to take the chance. There's no way the cops would have arrived on time. It's good he had his own weapon.

Sounds like a fantasy story.

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Hmm, I don't know - every other country seems to have figured out how to prevent the carnage we see due to guns. But let's do nothing and see how many more people die. That sounds fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm, I don't know - every other country seems to have figured out how to prevent the carnage we see due to guns. But let's do nothing and see how many more people die. That sounds fun.

Americans are nothing like anyone else, my friend.

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“A law enforcement official tells CNN’s Josh Campbell that the Odessa, TX mass murderer purchased his weapon in a private sale — which does not require a background check.”
- Jake Tapper

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Anonymous wrote:“A law enforcement official tells CNN’s Josh Campbell that the Odessa, TX mass murderer purchased his weapon in a private sale — which does not require a background check.”
- Jake Tapper

Was it also smuggled across the border? Who knows for sure? It could have been anywhere, and back.

Anyone wondering what made him so hateful and violent?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“A law enforcement official tells CNN’s Josh Campbell that the Odessa, TX mass murderer purchased his weapon in a private sale — which does not require a background check.”
- Jake Tapper

Was it also smuggled across the border? Who knows for sure? It could have been anywhere, and back.

Anyone wondering what made him so hateful and violent?

He was hateful and violent enough that he failed a background check and still was able to get a weapon.

[Anonymous]

My solution to the epidemic of gun violence:

1. Universal background checks and registration of all firearms
2. Ban assault weapons/large capacity magazines with a buy-back program
3. Strict liability in tort for all gun injuries and deaths (except for self-defense) for the firearm owner, seller, and manufacturer jointly and severally and a requirement for each to carry insurance against this liability similar to automobile insurance. This will spur more rigorous background checks and safety innovation such as biometric trigger locks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My solution to the epidemic of gun violence:

1. Universal background checks and registration of all firearms
2. Ban assault weapons/large capacity magazines with a buy-back program
3. Strict liability in tort for all gun injuries and deaths (except for self-defense) for the firearm owner, seller, and manufacturer jointly and severally and a requirement for each to carry insurance against this liability similar to automobile insurance. This will spur more rigorous background checks and safety innovation such as biometric trigger locks.

I think 1 is probably the easiest and most logical. Number 2 is possible but will be challenged. It will require amending the 2nd amendment to allow the government to infringe on the right to bear arms - not impossible.

Number 3 is just pure fantasy.

[Anonymous]

So Mitch McConnell is saying that he won’t have a vote on anything that Trump won’t sign, and Trump is saying that he wants to see what Congress comes up with. Round and round we go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My solution to the epidemic of gun violence:

1. Universal background checks and registration of all firearms
2. Ban assault weapons/large capacity magazines with a buy-back program
3. Strict liability in tort for all gun injuries and deaths (except for self-defense) for the firearm owner, seller, and manufacturer jointly and severally and a requirement for each to carry insurance against this liability similar to automobile insurance. This will spur more rigorous background checks and safety innovation such as biometric trigger locks.

Love #3.

Sure, you can have your gun. But you have to pay for the damages.

[Anonymous]

Assault weapons/large capacity magazines can definitely be regulated under the Constitution. It was done in the past and the SC did not overturn those past regulations.

BTW: this guy was actually rejected because of background checks. He then went out and bought through the private sale loophole. In other words basic common sense regulation would have prevented this massacre.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My solution to the epidemic of gun violence:

1. Universal background checks and registration of all firearms
2. Ban assault weapons/large capacity magazines with a buy-back program
3. Strict liability in tort for all gun injuries and deaths (except for self-defense) for the firearm owner, seller, and manufacturer jointly and severally and a requirement for each to carry insurance against this liability similar to automobile insurance. This will spur more rigorous background checks and safety innovation such as biometric trigger locks.

I think 1 is probably the easiest and most logical. Number 2 is possible but will be challenged. It will require amending the 2nd amendment to allow the government to infringe on the right to bear arms - not impossible.

Number 3 is just pure fantasy.

This is not legally correct. Many reasons it might not come to pass, but this is not one of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bombs and vehicles must be next....

Vehicles are heavily regulated, as are drivers, and you have to successfully make a bomb. No comparison.

Opioids are also "heavily regulated", aren't they?

Keep ignoring the actual cause of the violence and addictions.

It is a lot harder to directly kill other people than the user with opioids. Also don't see the GOP rushing to help those caught in the opioid crisis.

Take off your blinders and put down your hatred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“A law enforcement official tells CNN’s Josh Campbell that the Odessa, TX mass murderer purchased his weapon in a private sale — which does not require a background check.”
- Jake Tapper

Was it also smuggled across the border? Who knows for sure? It could have been anywhere, and back.

Anyone wondering what made him so hateful and violent?

He was hateful and violent enough that he failed a background check and still was able to get a weapon.

[Anonymous]

Why would Libs want ANY guns to be legal?