45 days into the new year and there have already been 18 school shootings many of them with multiple fatalitys. Is it not time we relooked the bill of rights and amendments there in and made changes to suit our newest way of life and protected the things dear to us, our children?

 

No, there have not been 18 school shootings already this year

No, there have not been 18 school shootings already this year, as CNBC, Politico, The Washington Post, ABC, The (New York) Daily News and briefly a USA TODAY column all reported in the hours since a 19-year-old allegedly slaughtered 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., on Ash Wednesday.

 

Okay you want to take a few of them out because they only happened on or around the school properties that children attend? And/Or the ones were no one got injured when the firearm got discharged at the school?
They are all indicative of the problem, firearms near school kids. Lets be serious you have a cop who let as 8 or 9(?)year old discharge his firearm at school. 16 year old guys shooting off warning shots at school, whats he even doing with as gun, let alone a gun at school?
Yes there are instance where no one got hurt when people accidently discharged firearms, but those same instances could turn into fatalities just as easily. The paramount question being why were the guns at school in kids hands and how do we stop it?

 

Wasn't this supposed to stop all that?

Or how about this;

Then, there is this;

Lets also not forget about this;

Plus, there are a bunch of ''already on the books'' gun control laws this nation and all States have.

Lets put the issues in order here, this is not a gun issue...this is a parenting issue.

 

I believe that gun control laws should be debated on the merits and decided democratically by the will of the electorate. I do not believe that they should be decided on the basis of various court's interpretation of the Second Amendment.

I do not care what the so called "Founding Fathers" thought about gun control laws over two centuries ago. I want to live in a country that is far safer than it currently is from gun violence and crime.

In civilized countries even conservatives ask, "Why would anyone want to own a gun?"

 

Excuse me: The Second Amendment does not gleefully kill children. It is the twisted interpretation of the Second Amendment that slavering gun hoarders promote and, with the acquiescence of a retarded president who signs a law allowing others of his kind (the mentally ill) to have access to assault weapons that is the problem.

 

And...which law was that?

 

Another gun thread, this sure to stop the senseless slaughter of kids, won't it.

Maybe someone ought to actually look at why this is happening.

 

GUN CONTROL LAWS do not work as intended.

 

on February 28, 2017, he signed a measure nixing a regulation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of some severely mentally ill people.

 

About all you can do is learn to bob and weave....

 

No he didn't.

What he did do, Trump’s repeal reverses the SSA rule on reporting possibly dangerous individuals to NICS.

While under the regime of Obama, SSA was required to identify and report to the (NICS) individuals who are unable to work because of severe mental impairment and can’t manage their own Social Security financial benefits, and therefore were ineligible to buy guns.

The thought was that those certain Social Security recipients could pose a danger to themselves or others.

Even with the law, the data submitted often was incomplete.

The regulation is flawed beyond any kind of repair. It results in reporting people to the gun ban list that should not be on that list at all. It deprives those people [of] their constitutional rights and, in a very important way, violating their constitutional rights without even due process

Just how many times did Obama get some major gun control measures passed in his 8 years of office?......NONE.

 

You are perverse Ace.......the OP makes a valid plea to re-examine a law that was written more than 200 years ago when a trained marksman could fire 3 shots a minute. These days even the mentally ill can fire over 100 rounds a minutes since you think it is more important to argue numbers perhaps you would like to comment on how firing 1oo rounds a minute is permitted by the SECOND amendment??

Prick!!

Thinskin

 

Because Republicans (and some Democrats) in Congress blocked him at every turn.

And you are right. When Trump's signature allowed about 75,000 people with mental illness back on the 'OK to buy guns list", it was only POSSIBLE that some who acquire automatic weapons and kill children. I suppose if only 1 % of them, or 750 slaughtered school children, it makes Trump's actions OK. After all, 99% wouldn't kill anyone, right?

 

I beg to differ. There might have been 2 trained marksmen who could fire 3 shots a minute in 1787, but that would be all. If, and that is a big if, someone actually could load a gun in 20 seconds (more likely 40 seconds), a marksmen has to actually take careful aim to BE a marksmen (not just someone who luckily hits a target without aiming). Most marksmen would be lucky to get off 2 shots in a minute. Plenty of time for someone, after the first shot, to rush him, take the gun out of his hands and beat him senseless with it.

 

Where is this ''automatic weapons'' nonsense coming from?

There isn't any correlation between receiving SSA for being mentally ill and being a danger to themselves or others, it just aint there.

 

Worry about your own country nutsack.

 

Mentally ill is mentally ill. Mentally ill. Key words. Mentally ill. See? Mentally ill. Go find someone who is mentally ill, give them and AK-15 and put them in a locked room with your kids. I'm sure nothing will happen. Try it. You are so smug.

 

No, there are several different stages and levels of mental illness, one can be metally ill...AND NOT BE A DANGER.

 

You are too boneheaded to discuss anything with. OF COURSE most mentally ill people are not a danger. We don't have to worry that 75,000 new people will be going on a rampage. But if ONE of them does, you are alright with that. Nice.