To my understanding, mentally ill folks have a right to own a firearm just as much as anybody. Didn’t Florida loosen law so that the mentally ill would be able to seek treatment and not have to have their guns taken away? I thought the background check regarding mental illness only applies to folks who have been declared incompetent by a court. I could be wrong, just asking.
Just where did this shooter use an automatic weapon. See this is part of the problem people like you talking about something you have idea about. No one can just go buy a legal automatic firearm there is a 200 dollar tax and a background check that requires fingers prints and a picture and takes 6 months to a year. If you pass the background check you get a tax stamp that allows you to spend thousand of dollars on one specific firearm
I'm not saying ban guns. That's not the solution. But we do need some sort of stricter laws in place to keep automatic weapons out of the hands of someone with mental issues.
The FBI is reportedly investigating whether a Russian, with ties to the Kremlin, funneled money illegally to the National Rifle Association to give to the Trump campaign. The NRA spent an unprecedented $30 million to help Trump campaign -- through both pro-Trump and anti-Clinton efforts -- more than double what it spent to help Mitt Romney in 2012
In the hours after the Florida shooting, bot and troll tracking sites detected a proliferation of activity in Russian-linked Twitter accounts working to add to the acrimony that always follows US shootings. That is in keeping with the Kremlin'swell-documented efforts to intensify internal divisions in the United States and other democracies. But there may be more to Russia's involvement.
The influence of money in the political process is one of the most transparent flaws in US democracy. Polls show many Americans want stricter gun laws, but elected officials, who need daunting amounts of money to win elections, grow beholden to their donors. The NRA has spent more than $200 million on political activities since 1998, including campaign contributions, lobbying and other political activities. The NRA spends for a purpose, and it gets results.
At last year's NRA convention, President Donald Trump told the gun lobby, "You came through for me, and I am going to come through for you," promising, "I will never, ever let you down." Is it any surprise he didn't utter the word "guns" in his speech about the shooting? Trump was playing to his base and his patrons, wherever they are.
America isn't unique in that some of its citizens suffer from mental illnesses. But America has more guns per capita than any country on Earth. That's why the death toll by gun homicides equates to 27 people shot dead in the United States every day, making the gun homicide rate here more than 25 times higher than that of other high-income countries.
Michael Hayes shot 11 people killing 4, Found not guilty by reason of insanity fathered 2 kids while in custody at dorothea dix, he is out now so i don't put any faith in our mental health system
The problem with that is it’s been proven that fences and metal detectors actually make kids feel less safe because of the reminder of a threat and it hinders their performance.
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