GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Jimbone]

I don't know if you're just trying to be difficult, but I think what most reasonable people are trying to achieve in this latest round of gun control debate, is to eliminate crazy people from shooting up public places, particularly elementary schools.

I guess I am trying to be difficult insofar as I completely agree with you. We do need to eliminate crazy people from shooting anything, period.

I feel I am a pretty reasonable person, relatively intelligent, and capable of sound logic. You are as well.

So you know as well as I do, that people are using this opportunity to push an agenda that is based on utter crap. Banning weapons over cosmetic features and enhancements doesn't make a gun less deadly. Banning weapons that are not responsible for 99% of gun deaths doesn't solve the problem of a broken mental health treatment protocols. In fact, there is nothing is the proposed legislation that would have stopped Newtown. If that was the goal, everyone is failing.

Look at all the spree killers, and you see mentally ill people. They were by and large on radar and being treated. But the warm and fuzzy treatment protocols now call for medication, and societal inclusion therapy. Whereas seriously mentally ill people used to be sequestered from society, they are now among us. It may not be popular to say, but it's true. And now when they snap, instead of a few orderlies tackling them we are left to deal with them on the streets.

More stringent background/mental health checks, more restrictions at gun shows, etc. it is possible to at least reduce the carnage.

I think reasonable people are just asking for a consolidated effort by ALL.

I think these are all reasonable and good things to do.