It would seem that if we made everyone get a license to use such social media ... and if there were a nation registry of such users and those who should be barred from using them ... and if there were a 30-day waiting period for new users to join such technologies ... and if we could ban any social media that had a scary name or appearance ... then we might begin to control this scourge of school violence.
Obviously, the above was partially tongue in cheek. But there really should be something we can do. It seems everyone was predicting that this nutjob in Florida might some day snap ... and he did. They knew this threat without even a background check. Why couldn't the authorities have taken action ahead of this slaughter ... as soon as he had threatened others? Confiscate his guns and ammunition? Closely monitor him and his social media postings? Even place him in protective custody? Maybe we should even stop sensationalizing these incidents in the national media to discourage copycats?
We are civilized. Let us find a civilized solution other than repealing the Second Amendment.
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What is needed is practical gun control. While it is apparent that the USA is geographically unlikely to have a foreign invasion, our legacy from WWII is that we need to have the largest military in the world. Yet we feel it is depleted and we are domestically insecure and vulnerable, wanting to protect ourselves by building personal arsenals.
That's the root of the problem, just as with the opiod crisis, there would not be a crisis if there was no demand.
Yet even with high demand, the NRA's 5 million members have outsized influence with Congress. Consider that the AARP for 40 million members. They should have 8 times the influence to say that, to quote Mr. Sturm Ruger in 1992: “No honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun.”
Make high capacity and rapid fire guns illegal. In the spirit of our 2nd amendment founders, guns legal for citizens would be limited to single-shot, bolt-action, lever-action, or pump-action.
I would opine that there is very little difference between a lever action and semi-automatic rifle (remember the rifleman?) I would be in favor of limiting clips to 10 tounges and against bump stocks. I also believe that we should enforce current gun laws and get the FBI to do its job.
"rounds" not "tounges"
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