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Yes, they can. All they have to do is not share that they're mentally ill.
I watched a friend of mine in my early 20s amass a stockpile that included a 50cal, ak-47, ar-15, and many handguns, he had actually been institutionalized twice.
Well I've done a little research. Guess who opposes a national database of tbe mentally ill? Hint: it ain't the gun lovers.
Well, sure, if that's what you want to call a decently-functioning civilized society where children are not shot up in a classroom...
You guys never have any answer to this other than "everyone should just arm themselves to the teeth and live every moment of every day in full combat mode like Nam."
That is not how civilized societies should have to operate - and they don't, if you look around the world.
And what are some examples of "civilized societies"? And why would be like them when we are a different kind of society.
Mexico forbids guns, it has strict gun laws. Yet it has more homicides than we have. We would be far more like Mexico than probably one of your "civilized societies".
Reports are that the rifle was found in the trunk. Maybe if it had been a "folder" he could have gotten in the school. Who knows. I agree though, laws against the "cosmetics" of a weapon are kind of ridiculous.
Time for all the gun advocates who don't believe in any oversight or regulations to do some serious soul searching.
How much tougher can Connecticut laws be? Should we have gun laws as strict as Mexico's?
Are you claiming that prohibition works? Do you believe the black market doesn't exist and that making guns as illegal as pot or meth would solve the problem?
I only recently started shooting guns at a range. The first time I went to shoot handguns, I thought that I would be awesome at it, since I'm awesome at those video games.
Yeah, no. It's totally different to shoot an actual gun than to use a controller and shoot something on the screen. The first time I shot a glock it felt like a bomb going off in my hand, and I came nowhere near the target.
I grew up shooting guns and taking martial arts; I've been in plenty of fights and brawls in my younger, less discrete years... any time I pick up a first-person shooter with friends, I get slaughtered in short form, no matter how familiar I am with the controls or the game itself, by friends whom I could easily destroy in real life were it to come to that. I don't think that video games are training simulators for unstable people to go on killing sprees.
Better off would be yearly registration with a doctors certification if you want to own a gun.
Whoa. Talk about arming the criminals.
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