We do various types of psychological and emotional screenings in many circumstances, like military, law enforcement and public safety, air traffic controllers, trauma surgeons, crisis counselors, daycare providers, teachers, astronauts, mission controls staff and so on.

People should be required to pass them before being allowed to purchase or own a gun. Along with not having any history of violence, domestic abuse, anger management issues, substance abuse and so on.

The rights afforded by the Constitution are not absolute. You don't have the right to abuse the first amendment by committing perjury, impersonating a police officer, by making terroristic threats, fraudulent claims about goods and services and so on. That's irresponsible and abusive to fellow Americans.

Accordingly, Americans should not have the right to abuse the 2nd Amendment either, because that is also irresponsible and abusive to fellow Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump wants crazy people to have guns.

Here’s an inconvenient truth for you to wrestle with.

“ But gun control laws, like any law, should be fair, effective and not based on prejudice or stereotype. This rule met none of those criteria.

In this era of “alternative facts,” we must urge politicians to create laws based on reliable evidence and solid data.”

https://www.aclu.org/news/disability-rights/gun-control-laws-should-be-fair

Oh, so you're saying mental illness isn't real. It's all just a made-up prejudice or stereotype and there's no real evidence that mental illness is a thing. Wow.

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Anonymous wrote:Ban assault weapons. No one and I mean no one needs an AR15 outside the military. That would be a start and we were able to do it before.

the military doesn't use ar15s.

They use the M16 and M4, both assault rifles.

Again for those in the back, no one outside of the battlefield needs an assault rifle.

It's a good thing our rights don't depend on your determination of what people need.

Where does 2A say "AR-15" or "bazooka" or "howitzer?"

I musta missed that. Your "rights" are half imagined.

Anonymous wrote:Trump wants crazy people to have guns.

Here’s an inconvenient truth for you to wrestle with.

“ But gun control laws, like any law, should be fair, effective and not based on prejudice or stereotype. This rule met none of those criteria.

In this era of “alternative facts,” we must urge politicians to create laws based on reliable evidence and solid data.”

https://www.aclu.org/news/disability-rights/gun-control-laws-should-be-fair

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Anonymous wrote:Ban assault weapons. No one and I mean no one needs an AR15 outside the military. That would be a start and we were able to do it before.

the military doesn't use ar15s.

They use the M16 and M4, both assault rifles.

Again for those in the back, no one outside of the battlefield needs an assault rifle.

It's a good thing our rights don't depend on your determination of what people need.

Your rights are what the President and SCOTUS say they are. And it's not always going to look like what it looks like now.

Anonymous wrote:Trump wants crazy people to have guns.

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"we don't have a gun problem, we have a mental healt..." SHAADAAPPPP!!! Seriously, go sit down and STFU.

YOU idiot Republicans voted for a guy who is LITERALLY PUTTING GUNS IN THE HANDS OF CRAZY PEOPLE.

You idiot Republicans voted to dismantle much of our mental health system and don't want to fund healthcare for people who can't pay for it themselves (like crazy people unable to hold down a job).

DO NOT tell us about "mental health." DO something about it. We are SICK AND TIRED of you constantly deflecting without DOING something about it.

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Anonymous wrote:We sacrifice 40,000 people to the automobile a year, and driving isn't even mentioned in the Constitution. So probably some multiple of that.

That’s a false equivalency though. Driving has multiple prosocial purposes. Guns have one purpose: killing.

Mass shootings aren’t an accidental byproduct of some other activity, they are the activity.

I wouldn't call driving a prosocial activity though. Not on an individual or social level. The car has led to the destruction of the American landscape, the isolation of people from their communities and a crushing financial burden. The car kills people, cities and nations. Guns only kill people.

Let’s not conflate metaphorical killing of cities with literal killing of people. That’s irrelevant.

Guns are designed to murder, and marketed as such. Cars are not advertised based on how many pedestrians they can mow down.

Guns are no more "designed to murder" than cars are designed to kill other drivers and pedestrians. Both can be used for legal and valid purposes, or abused. The variable is the operator, and that's where the focus should be, not on the instrument they use improperly.

Absolutely WRONG and completely historically inaccurate. You should be embarrassed for posting this. Seriously. Completely wrong. Not even vaguely correct.

Trump wants crazy people to have guns.

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Anonymous wrote:We sacrifice 40,000 people to the automobile a year, and driving isn't even mentioned in the Constitution. So probably some multiple of that.

That’s a false equivalency though. Driving has multiple prosocial purposes. Guns have one purpose: killing.

Mass shootings aren’t an accidental byproduct of some other activity, they are the activity.

I wouldn't call driving a prosocial activity though. Not on an individual or social level. The car has led to the destruction of the American landscape, the isolation of people from their communities and a crushing financial burden. The car kills people, cities and nations. Guns only kill people.

Let’s not conflate metaphorical killing of cities with literal killing of people. That’s irrelevant.

Guns are designed to murder, and marketed as such. Cars are not advertised based on how many pedestrians they can mow down.

Guns are no more "designed to murder" than cars are designed to kill other drivers and pedestrians. Both can be used for legal and valid purposes, or abused. The variable is the operator, and that's where the focus should be, not on the instrument they use improperly.

Of course guns are designed to murder. I guess you could use one as a paperweight, but that isn’t its primary function.

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Anonymous wrote:We sacrifice 40,000 people to the automobile a year, and driving isn't even mentioned in the Constitution. So probably some multiple of that.

Gun violence is leading cause of death for minors, not car accidents.

Remove every “minor” from ages 18-26, all suicides, all firearm deaths associated with illegal activity on the part of the decedent, and accidents, and then tell us the actual numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:97.4% of mass shooting are committed by straight white males.

You’re a liar trying to stir up racial hatred towards white men. Let me provide some facts that refute your absurd claim:

“Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole.”

“Between 1982 and August 2025, 84 out of the 155 mass shootings in the United States were carried out by white shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was Black in 26 mass shootings and Latino in 12. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 54 percent, 17 percent, and eight percent, respectively.”

https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/

PP got their facts mixed up. White men are responsible for nearly every SCHOOL shooting, not every mass shooting. (Mass shooting includes urban gang shootings). When white boys want to kill en masse, they kill helpless kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Ban assault weapons. No one and I mean no one needs an AR15 outside the military. That would be a start and we were able to do it before.

the military doesn't use ar15s.

They use the M16 and M4, both assault rifles.

Again for those in the back, no one outside of the battlefield needs an assault rifle.

It's a good thing our rights don't depend on your determination of what people need.

I am a straight white Christian republican male. Everything is based on what I think you need.

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Anonymous wrote:Ban assault weapons. No one and I mean no one needs an AR15 outside the military. That would be a start and we were able to do it before.

the military doesn't use ar15s.

They use the M16 and M4, both assault rifles.

Again for those in the back, no one outside of the battlefield needs an assault rifle.

It's a good thing our rights don't depend on your determination of what people need.

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Anonymous wrote:97.4% of mass shooting are committed by straight white males.

based on what? Mass shootings, defined as 4 or more people injured by a shooter skew to other demographics.
What definitnion are you using.

The racist definition where white men are supposed to be vilified as a group.

Anonymous wrote:97.4% of mass shooting are committed by straight white males.

You’re a liar trying to stir up racial hatred towards white men. Let me provide some facts that refute your absurd claim:

“Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole.”

“Between 1982 and August 2025, 84 out of the 155 mass shootings in the United States were carried out by white shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was Black in 26 mass shootings and Latino in 12. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 54 percent, 17 percent, and eight percent, respectively.”

https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/