Let us go back a ways. In HS in 1968 we had no gun free zones and all the student that hunted had there gun in an EZ rider gun rack in their pickups so they could hunt after school. We also had no school shootings! Sure, we did have fist fights and we got suspended but none of us killed the others. We hear all about what they plan to do about all the guns and absolutely nothing about the shooters and the root causes. My deer rifle was and still is a .308 Semi Auto that is more powerful and much more accurate than any AR style weapon and capable of firing as many rounds as I could feed it in rapid fashion. Having been a gun owner all of my life and I have owned many I can honestly say not a single gun in my posession has ever harmed another human being yet I am the one who they want to do deep background checks on and restrict from various types of weapons and magazine capacities while the bad guys run free to have whatever illegal weaponry they can buy of steal.

Pencils do not misspell words, people do.

Bad guys don't register their weapons or buy them legally in most cases. You only find out about lunatics legally owning weapons when they act out, and I'm sure the majority do not. The flare-ups are a consequence of freedom and a degree of free will. They cannot be prevented without decimating liberty for everyone.
I do suspect that the lefts rhetoric of fire and troubled times from every angle is exactly what's influencing these happenings and it's only going to get worse as america's brown shirts become more rabid.

The simple response to this crap is that nothing about the anti gun movement has to do with "gun safety." It's all about disarming and controlling the population. It has never been about anything else, no matter what their words are. History is our teacher...but only if we pay attention. The lefties DENY the case, while struggling to repeat it. Quite weird.

I have an Idea.....prohibit Democrats from owning firearms....all these shooters seem to be Democrats or some sort of socialist. They are also the ones that used to own all the slaves anyway......They can turn in their guns and we can sell them off to pay the slave reparations they owe to African Americans.

Drugs are illegal.....people get all sorts of exotic drugs! There is no reason to think that once firearms become illegal they wont still be able to get them.

Finding the causes that compel these mentally ill individuals to act out is the only solution and a very hard one. Some seek fame from the media and want to go out in suicide by cop after taking as many lives as possible. Others live in some fantasy world believing they are John Wick or some Army commando doing the work of the military. Still others are just angry and hateful and instead of just ending their own life they want another to end it for them while they go on their death wish killing spree. No one has all the answers so instead they come up with feel good reactions that have no proven results. Banning ARs and limiting magazine capacities does nothing. Carry more 10 round clips so your illegal killing is done legally. Ignorance is bliss and our elected leaders sure do have enough ignorance and are completely unwilling to face reality but Vote for me!

It is already against the law to shoot people as an aggressor. One more law will not deter those with Evil intent, it will just mean law abiding folks will lose rights because of a madman’s actions.

As I have said in other posts, if a terrorist is bent on killing people he/she will use anything as a weapon. Consider the Bastille Day attack in France. Consider the 9/11 attacks here. the suicide bombers all around the world.
The terrorists aim to to kill as many as possible as violently as possible. They want to change the mindset of the population they are attacking not just kill.
The kneejerk reaction of banning weapons plays into their hands by lessening the capability of the population to defend themselves and others if the need arises. I recall the incident in California about 15 to 20 years ago wh4n bank robbers were so armored in body armor and with heavy weapons that the police cound not stop them. Citizens gave them their weapons to use that had more punch. One gun shold even gave out heavy caliber weapons and ammo to the police.
At the rate gun control fanatics are going, slingshots will be outlawed.
What is needed is people control. cross linking of mental health records and background check databases could be used but that is loaded with potential for abuse.psycological testing prior to have a license to buy could be used. Again fraught with potential abuses and unintended consequences.
There has to be a way to limit the people not the weapons.

I just posted this on my FaceBook page: Controlling guns is not going to get rid of the violence. We still have knives, bombs, vehicles, etc. The problem is not the weapons, it is what has happened to our society!

No one and especially the liberals ever want to consider a SHTF scenario or what could possibly even cause it. Well, what if? We are in a trade war now with Communist China and NK is not our friend nor are Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Iran and numerous other well armed countries. Say they get together and totally demolish our electric grid knocking out all power across North America. Sure, I have a big generator for emergencies and can survive for maybe a week or two with the fuel on hand. With no electricity at all there will be anarchy in the street PDQ and the cockroaches from the cities will be in full force trying to feed themselves any way they can. Hunger is a very strong motivator and all rules and laws will fly out the windows real fast. Cops and military also need to eat and feed and protect their families and we will be in a state of major emergency in short order. Those with no guns will be first to go and those with guns will be fighting for their lives. Think it can't happen then all you need do is take a real look at Venezuela right now. Those who cut and ran might have made it while the ones who stayed are witnessing complete anarchy as we speak. Gangs and thugs are running their blocks and no one is safe. Since the Revolutionary war no foreign forces have attempted to invade our shores because they are well aware we are well armed and not just the police and military. Every government that has ever banned guns in the hands of their citizens have killed more people in mass than the guns themselves. Without guns we are no longer citizens and become ruled subjects by those with the guns. First it is the high capacity magazines and then it will be the ammunition and after that it will be just another chip and another until we are defenseless. It is almost 2020 and the way I see things going this country will be in seriously bad shape by 2050 and I will be gone. Some young people today can't decide what gender they are while others just want to eat junk, grow obese, play video games and veg out on whatever drugs they can get their hands on while the liberals provide them a living wage for doing nothing at all.

Hmm, I seem to remember Cain killed Abel with a rock...Oh wait, you can't Reason with the Unreasonable, so all we can do is Resist their stupidity.

If all guns were successfully banned (I believe the "successfully" part is impossible, because criminals would still get them), then what? The physically weaker people would be so disadvantaged against the physically stronger people, and there would still be so much brutality, including rapes. Before the invention of the handgun and the shotgun/rifle, there was plenty of killing; look at what they did in the Middle Ages. A gun, as my father said, is an "equalizer"; it puts the physically weaker person on a level with the physically stronger person. But I don't believe all the sniveling sentimentality on the part of the "gungrabbers". I don't believe they are sincere in the first place about wanting to stop the killing. What they want is control--power over other people; and they must not be allowed to get it.

What irritates me is that Democratic congressional reps refuse to recognize that there is a Black Market in firearms in the US. One in particular Tom O'Halleran: dist. 1 (the district I live in Az.) supposed ex-police officer refused to acknowledge a firearms black market exists. The licensing and other restrictions being recommended by the gun-grabbing politicians isn't going to make a difference. If a criminal or other crazies want to get a gun they will.
I was talking to an older gentleman at the range today, he was originally from NYC relayed that all he had to do is ask someone who asked another person of dubious character to obtain a gun and it was in his hands the next day. Even though that was a number of years ago he believed it was still possible today.

Guns don't kill people. Bullets do.

I'm beginning to re-think my choice of shopping places. Walmart, the Mall? I live between two schools and a Day Care.

I did a quick search asking were mass shooter/killer male of female. One result showed 110 were male and 3 were female and one had both.I did not ask to define mass killing/shooting. There could be a list of what qualifies as mass killing. But generally it looks us guys are guilty

It's a mental illness crisis.

Me an old dino has seen this bumper sticker as far back as the Sixties~~
WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED ONLY CRIMINALS WILL OWN GUNS.