1ºI lived in Ct when this tragedy happened and my heart hurts for the parents, but what needs to be done is legislation on mental health not guns. The mother knew her son had mental issues yet still bought him guns and a safe, a safe that she placed in his room unlocked.
For this poor decision she paid for it with her life as she was the first person shot and killed. If you know a person has mental issues you don't buy them weapons and surely don't leave a safe unlocked. A normal, sane person wouldn't take a weapon shoot the mother you love and then go killing innocent children.
The legislators in Ct went on to pass a law that banned any New purchases of AR15's in Ct, put a ban on hundreds of other forms as well as any magazine holding more then 10 rounds.
So you can't buy a "New" AR, but you can buy a "preban" meaning Pre 1994. It is the same exact gun just has a different production date.
This is what Democrats did in Ct and it is called "feel-good" legislation that does Nothing to make anyone safer. You need to get mental health legislation if you want to make sure this don't happen again, not fake legislation on guns.
2ºJohn Wenzlaff obviously not enough.
I agree that states with stricter gun control do have less gun violence than states with lower control, this is clear.
But compared to, for instance, the UK , where obtaining a gun is much, much more difficult and gun ownership is subsequently much much lower, there were 33 gun homicides last year in a population of 67 million.
In the USA, the gun homicide rate is ONE HUNDRED times higher.
Your safest state has a gun homicide rate TWENTY times higher, your most dangerous, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY times higher.
Which country has got it right on guns ?
3ºKevin Langemeier agree. The actual number of people in the USA with mental illness is as high as 60 million. and the majority do not present a problem .
The 15 million I mention have serious issues like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, these conditions are potentially not compatible with gun ownership.
Those that carry out mass shootings in schools, I am sure you will agree, by definition, have mental illness...
Easy access to guns is wrong in any society.
Those that oppose gun control often say it is mentally ill people that are the problem , not guns.
Easy access to firearms is the real problem, societies with strict gun control and low levels of gun ownership have a small fraction of the gun deaths of the USA, mass shootings are virtually unheard of
4ºNo single solution will solve our school shooting crisis, so we need to attack the problem from as many angles as we can. We need a multi-faceted plan that addresses mental health issues, easy access to firearms, school safety strategies, political bribery, and social media monitoring.
a. Increasing the purchasing age to 21 for all firearms and ammo. ("Data shows at least 59 percent of the 2,275 school shootings researchers recorded since 1970 were committed by someone under 21 years old." (Hearst Connecticut Group, 2022)
b. Making mental health services easily available
c. Increasing school security
d. Ensuring that teachers have classroom doors completely closed and locked during class (Research shows that no school shooter has completely breached a locked classroom door. They have shot through them, so stay away from doors.)
e. Adding and/or strengthening well-written red flag laws in every state
f. Requiring 'See Something, Say Something' programs in schools
g. Preventing the gun industry (or any others) from donating to any political campaigns
h. Legally require social media companies to monitor for and report threats
i. Hold parents responsible if their child uses their gun illegally
5ºKevin Langemeier No, the first thing that I noticed was there was not even a single photo of anything whatsoever that would lead one to believe that a shooting took place. They said the front door was riddled with bullet holes from an automatic machine gun. So why did we never see a photo of that door? Wouldn't that photo have won a Pulitzer prize, or Time magazine's photo of the year? Why did we not see a single drop of blood? Why did we not see a single body anywhere? No bullet casings, nothing. That was the first thing, but then I started digging deeper and the entire narrative is just so full of holes and absurdities and discrepancies, it's just incredible.
6ºtheres that great poorly educated name calling again- im guessing midterms did NOT at all go the way republicans thought- ever since they ended- republicans have bene name calling left and right- wishing death upon me for taking the vaccine ( just had that happen today on the vaccine post ), calling me a loser, a bot ,etc. LOL, trolling medical and news pages all over- yeah i get it- you didn't get your way once again, you're mad, you're venting, doing it on FB for 10 hours a day is your fun- why not go outside? breathe some air?