SmashMouth

You’re making my point. IN ADDITION to hardening schools, more focus and emphasis should be put on recognizing and acting on the mental health of these people.

That’s why hardening schools alone is not the only answer. You gotta address the real issue which is some young dude (generally) who has some screws loose.

Nothing to address mental health?

Yeah, I don’t plan on turning in my weapons either.

Exactly. Or even unloads from the bottom of the stands into the seated spectators. By and large, these attackers know in the backs of their minds they’re probably not going to survive the event.

I agree with “hardening” schools too. But what happens when some wing nut shows up to the football game at homecoming or any other scenario outside the walls of the school and decides to go on a rampage?

It's a comedy of errors. I am sure a culmination of things are to blame. Whether you be a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, etc., this will continue to happen if the Mental Health issues are not addressed as one of the problems. I have several rifles and pistols (including AR's) with higher capacity magazines. I don't plan on giving them up either. But if there was an extended wait period (say 2 weeks) to get those or a mental evaluation to get those, I would be ok with that. If I could no longer drop off lunch to my kid at school and the schools were locked down, I would be ok with that. It might slow things down, but it's not going to stop the assaults. Address the mental health issues of these individuals and the harms of social media, the degradation of the nuclear family and the lack of faith-based upbringing in our society today, and you might be able to do something about it.

That’s just not how it works anymore.

It's a slang (some would consider it derogatory) for LGBTQ - it's easier to remember too... AKA the Alphabet People.

I'm sickened by it. I'm just glad my Dad, a 30 year Marine vet, never had to see it come to this.

He started the NASCAR race by waving the green flag. It was LMNOP week for NASCAR, and it upset the LMNOP Community for allowing Abbott (who put forth measures to not allow the disfiguring and re-sexting of children) to be the one to start the race. Personally, I love it... Lol.

Definitely a whack job, but a good actor all the same...

Especially a gumbo spoon.

Well, that's true. I can attest to that!

That’s mostly pistols in crime ridden areas.

A dog has a mind of it’s own. A gun can’t turn in you by itself.

You got my point. And cars kill WAAAYYYY more people than AR’s btw. AND you can drive one by yourself when you’re 16.

Buddy, that’s about as far a reach as you can get.

No harm no foul. The folks that don’t pass the test may not be the ones looking to do harm though.

But that’s illegal. Selling a firearm is not.

That would do nothing. Literally. Not saying I’m against it. I just thinks it’s useless.

Bad idea. Do you think a car dealer that sells a car to a person who runs over someone should be charged?

I don’t totally disagree, but nor do I have the complete answers. I will say that banning a 30 round AR will not solve the issue.

That's fair.

It's only a gun issue because guns are available. If you ban all guns then another form of attack will come. Vehicles, bombs, chemicals, fire.... I will repeat, it is a mental health issue. Let's go to the source of the murders to fix this instead of blaming how it was carried out.