Have we become used to or immune to mass shootings?

[DanaC]

Only disability reported to the NICS is mental illness - people who should not be sold assault weapons.

That is an awfully broad brush we're waving about there. There are many different kinds of mental illness.

In cases of mass shootings, while mental illness may be a factor it's rarely the determining factor.

You can be mentally ill or unstable without being wicked - and you can be plenty wicked without being mentally ill.

[tw]

Originally Posted by DanaC

That is an awfully broad brush we're waving about there.

Only broad brush was the simple summary of a more complex law that Trump want to continue to destroy. Only discussed is an extemely limited restriction - an almost no restriction. If anything better could exist, then it would have been proposed here. Nothing was because no better solution exists except those that eliminate so many more loopholes.

Nobody needs a gun the minute he feels he needs it. Filters sometimes slow that purchase. No problem for anyone - ever. Worse, anyone who needs a gun can go to gun shows where restrictions are bypassed. The problem is too few filters and restrictions. So we need to eliminate them all?

In a local convention center, what was the largest show they ever had? The gun show one day after Sandy Hook. Guns were not purchased to protect their kid' schools. Fears that assault weapons would finally be restricted increases sales among the emotional who need military weapons.

This Cruz kid could not by alcohol and could not buy an 9 mm handgun. Without trivial restrictions compromised, he can immediately buy an assault rifle - no questions asked.

Cho apparently had mental illness. But laws said he had every right to buy assault weapons, oversized magazines, and all the munitions he wanted. Because we must not learn who is danagerous? We have not yet killed enough (thousands of) kids yet. How many thousands must die before some finally admit we have no where near enough demands for responsibility.

You can be mentally ill and not be wicked? Fine. Then remove laws that have restricted research. NRA successfully got this research banned decades ago.

Who did Trump protect? The mentally ill. Anyone wonder why?