PredFan
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I didn't make that my point. You made it for me to misrepresent what I believe. Guns are tools that can do positive or negative things. Invading Poland was a negative. breaking away from the Royal Crown was a positive.
Defending your families life is a positive and killing people for shits and giggles is negative. The gun isn't the problem.
Cool, you've now tempered your original point. And yes, guns can be a problem, just ask anyone who has been shot. And sometimes guns can be helpful and the difference can be how the law is applied as to who is legally allowed to pull the trigger.
i.e. close loop holes and a real working background check system.
And you have obviously not studied either of those two things....because if you had you would know they do not stop one criminal or mass shooter from getting guns...but they do make it harder for normal people, especially the poor to get the guns they could use to save their own lives.
Which loophole needs to be closed....and how would a background check system stop gun murder?
We don't have a proper background check system in place. I'd like to see people who are mentally ill not have access to guns.
Wrong. We have a thorough and complete background check system in place and it does nothing but inconvenience law abiding citizens.
First off, it inconveniences people with a criminal background from buying guns, secondly, we're not really tracking those with a mental illnesses.
Anyway, I wasn't been inconvenienced when I bought my handgun. The check took about 5 minutes.
First off, you are wrong. It doesn't inconvenience them. They already know they can't.
Secondly if we aren't tracking people with mental illness then more background checks won't work. Perhaps we should do a better job of tracking them.
Anyway, even if it only takes 5 minutes, it's an unnecessary inconvenience because it doesn't work. If it worked then I'd have to agree with you.