From the article it sounds like there were two people randomly shooting at a car. It’s plausible that the other guy just gave him one if his guns.
Shouldn’t it be a crime to give a loaded gun to someone who is mentally incompetent to stand trial?
Why is someone who is not mentally competent enough to stand trial allowed to return to society? He should have been under medical supervision, not wandering the streets.
There are more guns than people in this country. Even if you banned their sale entirely there will still be plenty to go around.
For a time. But if you made it illegal to transfer a firearm by any means and set up a buy-back program where when gun owners died the government would claim the guns and provide fair compensation to the estate you could get rid of the guns without taking anyone’s guns away. It would take decades, of course, but every day there would be few guns out there and, importantly, the young people that commit most gun violence would be the people with the hardest time getting and carrying one. You can’t expect we’ll solve a problem that took decades to metastasize overnight anyway.
So there are solutions. That’s just one. We don’t solve this problem not because we can’t but because we don’t have the will to.
I appreciate your optimism but standing here in red rural America I don’t think it will ever happen. There are an insane amount of guns here with more and more every day.
theres about 50% of us or more who also feel we should start sooner than later in solving for the gun issue… but now with trump banging his cult drum, and one of those drum beats is the ‘2nd amendment’ were kinda fucked.
it would take a constitutional amendment, which we havent done in a long time… and with as useless as the 2 parties are right now, it wont happen.
Until there aren’t.
There were more buildings with asbestos in the US than people. Then we fixed it.
Yeah but the founding fathers just forgot to include the freedom to put asbestos in walls in the Constitution!
