FogBlueInSanFran
Well-Known Member
As an American with an American wife and American kids in an American high school, with American friends, one couple who lost their American child in a mass shooting by an American, I will weigh in and say that — fundamentally — it is not the employment of guns by professional criminals that worries me. I can avoid bad parts of town. I can avoid doing things that might put me in contact with professional criminals who employ guns as a way to earn.
What I worry about is the crazy lunatic who is able to get his hands legally on a weapon that is designed to destroy as much as possible in as short a time as possible in a place where it one is normally and statistically less likely to be in harm’s way, and to go out in a blaze of “glory”. Yes, we should invest more in mental health or whatever, and yes, a determined imbalanced human on a suicide mission is going to find a way, but neither of these issues erases the line on what kind of weapon I can and cannot buy legally. Why is the line drawn where it is, and why not more strictly?
The legal access to certain kinds of weapons that can kill faster and more aggressively is my worry — not 2A, not the Pandora’s box. I am in no position to determine what specific types of weapons should and should not be allowed to be purchased by a consumer. Perhaps the gun expert on this thread can opine on his view.
What I worry about is the crazy lunatic who is able to get his hands legally on a weapon that is designed to destroy as much as possible in as short a time as possible in a place where it one is normally and statistically less likely to be in harm’s way, and to go out in a blaze of “glory”. Yes, we should invest more in mental health or whatever, and yes, a determined imbalanced human on a suicide mission is going to find a way, but neither of these issues erases the line on what kind of weapon I can and cannot buy legally. Why is the line drawn where it is, and why not more strictly?
The legal access to certain kinds of weapons that can kill faster and more aggressively is my worry — not 2A, not the Pandora’s box. I am in no position to determine what specific types of weapons should and should not be allowed to be purchased by a consumer. Perhaps the gun expert on this thread can opine on his view.
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