The cost of freedom i guess
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If only she had a gun she could have protected herself!
From the article:
"Taylor had been criminally charged multiple times in the past, including in 2021 when he was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon."
Yeah, that's definitely someone who needed to be out on the streets and still armed. 👌 what the fuck
That's what happens when people can do private sales without any checks 👍 FREEDOM MOTHERFUCKER!
Freedom to kill innocent people, freedom to die randomly by flying bullets.
Guns don't kill stray bullets do...
Yall care when it's a pretty blonde white woman but this happens every hour in Nashville
Oh ok.. I guess it's on then...
Truth. It can stop if we get rid of the gangsters in the ghettos with their illegal guns. We don’t need more cops, just higher rent and taxes to price you out of your dwellings and force you to leave since you refuse to get an education and find jobs.
Man it's like you just hate people and thinking.
If you deprive people from a legal means of housing and feeding themselves, they will house and feed themselves in less legal ways.
Or some of you will realize that you need to get an education and a job and help the others learn. The ones that don’t learn should be sent to a remote part of Alaska and provided survival manuals that they need to figure out how to use to build a civil society. Their will be sentries ala Escape from LA/NY and these criminals can either choose to live in peace or chaos. Drones will televise for entertainment.
Oh yeah it's so easy to get an education right? That's like free right? Be quiet with your psycho rambling, go to Alaska yourself.
Ever hear of public primary and high school. It’s free. You just need to make the kids show up so that they don’t end up being criminals.
Yeah sure every school is equally well funded enough to stop kids from doing crimes. Crimes never occurr at schools.
"There is no way to prevent this" says only country where this happens regularly.
450+ million guns, you're not stopping gang violence like this which is the mass majority of all of our gun crime, by banning guns from lawful citizens. Dudes like this are already barred. Why don't you ask, why out system let him out.
Says man from only country where this happens regularly.
Plenty of other countries haven't banned guns from lawful citizens and dont have this problem.
Ok, man from perfect country. How would you personally solve this problem of gun violence? Would you form a posse and roundup all of the crazed lunatics out there who would dare to try and protect their families with a firearm? Would you raid the houses of anyone who may or may not have owned a gun in the past and search under the floorboards?
Seriously I want to know. How would you help all of these mentally ill people who seem to think that guns are toys, or just deeply want to harm other people?
You don't need me to tell you that. You wouldn't believe me anyway. There are plenty of professionals who have studied and acquired factual data of how other "perfect countries" do it and the differences. From the differences the solutions become very clear.
It's about restricting access, not banning. There's no one size fits all solution because nothing is perfect so you pick your poison. Find a country where this doesn't happen every day (so any developed country), look a the way they do things and pick the one you prefer to support - they all have upsides and downsides. What you have isn't working though.
Every country that has basically an effective ban, also has safety nets for the people, doesn't have a gang problem like we do, and focuses on education and not locking everyone up. They also never had 450+ million firearms in civilian hands. So please share with the class how you think you could pull it off without having all those safety nets in place.
How about having all those safety nets in place and regulated guns? Just an idea...
I'm fine with adding in the safety nets, they'll do 100xs more than any regulation you put in place will do. I'm not ok giving over a monopoly on force to people like the current Republicans. Why any of you think that's a good idea is just insane.
How does regulating guns so this sort of thing doesn't happen again give Republicans a monopoly on force?
You think the only way to even out the odds is to keep guns in the hands of dangerously mentally ill people? Really?
Because the only way for shit like this to not happen in your world of gun regulation, requires a total ban.
And a total ban gives whoever is in charge of the government a monopoly on force.
People like you will call Republicans nazis and fascist...then want to remove any force multiplier from civs and then pray they don't get elected. You're naive at best and ignorant at worse.
The only way to stop severely mentally ill people from obtaining guns is a total ban? Are you absolutely sure about that? There's no regulation out that that would mitigate the problem?
Tell me how you plan on stopping someone who's mentally ill from obtaining a firearm?
By putting them on a red flag list after they've been put on a psych hold. It's not that difficult.
Cool, that's already in place, and the Maine shooter still killed people. Dude was known all over the place to LE and still was armed.
If it's already in place, how did this guy in Nashville get a gun?
Because criminals don't follow the law... because they're fucking criminals....you cannot be this dumb... murder still happens you know? And a ton of laws are in place to make it illegal.
Sorry... your argument is that criminals don't follow the law so we should have laws in place to stop them?
No but I'm also not delusional to try what you think, which is to make murder double illegal... that's your logic not mine.
I'm pretty sure stopping mentally ill people from getting guns when they can get guns now does not make anything double illegal.
Just ignore this guy. Look at his comment history. Just ignore him like everyone else in his actual life does.