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He can claim he didn’t mean to draw comparisons, but he still picked that specific cause of death. Just weird and frankly a little gross.

I wonder if Mr Registered Democrat would at least support keeping guns out of the hands of the deeply mentally ill and domestic abusers. [/quote]

I picked it out of the list of low-incident causes of death because it’s a good example of something that (I would imagine) practically nobody has ever dealt with firsthand, and certainly nobody irrationally loses sleep over.

I doubt that my acquaintance who has a rifle-related panic attack upon hearing sirens has considered that the paramedics are MORE likely rushing to resuscitate her husband who was doing that. Actually I may have to use that line to mock her hysteria.

Yes, I ABSOLUTELY would suggest going REALLY hard after anyone who tries to buy a firearm in violation of any of the stipulations on the ATF form 4473. That form includes straw purchases, anyone adjudicated mentally defective, drug users, and misdemeanor (or greater) domestic violence.  And for that matter, expand the 4473 list to include a lot more exclusions for theft, burglary, DUI, etc.  Then give hard prison time to anyone in violation.

As much as the stories of “someone suddenly snapping” grab the headlines, they are extraordinarily rare statistical outliers.  Almost all violent crime is committed by a very small number of aberrant individuals with a long history of aberrant behavior.  [/quote]

Agree that it would be good to go after people who lied on their 4473s for straw purchases, drug use, misdemeanors or greater relating to domestic violence, threats or anger management issues. and, there are also a huge number of people who own guns, have been clinically diagnosed with mental issues involving psychosis, delusions, paranoia, threatening behavior, inappropriate aggression and violence to others or self-harm, but who have never been formally adjudicated in a court in any way that would bar them from owning a gun.  All told, those numbers are easily in the millions of people who own guns, who are being allowed to buy guns, but who really shouldn't be allowed to have guns.

The problem, however, is that we have completely hamstrung the people responsible for checking and enforcing it.  They do not have any easy way to detect straw purchases, because there is no persistent, searchable database of purchases.  And the systems also lack the connections and data to make appropriate determinations on many of the other issues as well.  And, it's not just crippled investigations and prosecutions, the courts do far too little as well.  Far too many purchases just get rubberstamped in the 4473 process for lack of adequate systems to do appropriate background checks and tracking of gun purchases.[/quote]

+1.   All this needs to be addressed asap.[/quote]

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