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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of blah blah blah about semantics and minor nuances of weapon functionality in these last two pages.  But no action.

That's unacceptable.

One mass shooting is too many mass shootings.

We need action, not words.

If you don't want confiscation and you want to preserve 2A that's all fine and good but you still need to come up with a proposal that will make America safer, because without one you are failing America and you are standing in the way of people who want America to be safer.

So what's your proposal?  (Hint: "the existing laws" clearly aren't working.)[/quote]

What's your alternative to "existing laws"?  Confiscation?  The Second Amendment exists to prevent this very activity.

Any proposal requires an honest, clear-eyed view of the root cause of mass shootings.  But let's not stop there.  How about we look at the root cause of shootings in general?  (Hint: It's not the availability of guns - just ask the Swiss and other countries that have relatively high gun ownership rates).[/quote]

What’s the root cause? And what’s the solution?[/quote]

The root cause is behavior, not whether tools or technology are misused.  Endless varieties of crime occur using endless tools or technology, or just exploiting human physical weakness or gullibility.  Identify and neutralize bad behavior.  [/quote]

So you want to regulate the behavior of gun owners? Psych profiles, extensive background checks, etc? Makes sense. [/quote]

We do,  Plenty of laws on the books relative to firearms, as well as to other activities.  The problem is enforcing the laws, all the laws, in the face of bad behavior.  If penalties are neither sure nor impactful, they don't deter anyone.  Criminals in jail cannot commit further crimes against the public.  Criminals who receive trivial sentences, are released without bail, or who are enabled by policies imposed on law enforcement which limit its effectiveness, remain criminals.  The mentally ill who are not dealt with effectively can, depending on their specific issues, become violent if unsupervised.  We can deal with violence and crime, we just don't want to, often because we characterize the criminals as somehow not responsible for what they do, so we leave them to it.  We could end carjacking by outlawing cars, how about that?  Or, we could deal with carjackers in a manner which denies them access to cars in the future, by leaving them in jail.  Ditto for gun crime - commit a crime with a gun, you should be done, but all too often such criminals receive light sentences and are back on the street.  [/quote]

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