Strict gun laws in Great Britain and Australia haven't made their people noticeably safer, nor have they prevented massacres. The two major countries held up as models for the U.S. don't provide much evidence that strict gun laws will solve our problems. Statistics can be manipulated to just about anyone's favor, but while there haven't been any large massacres in Australia since their gun control implementation, overall deaths by guns hasn't decreased that much and Britain has gotten to the point where about the only non police persons who have guns are criminals that aren't afraid to use them, that's why a lot of the Bobbies are now armed, some with automatic weapons, around the airports and subways.
The Libs want to crucify guns when the problem lies with people. Mentally unstable people don't care how they get guns, they care who they kill with them and it's pretty much decided that they don't care what happens after they use them, seems a lot of them simply decide to kill themselves rather than be caught by the police. It's a damned shame they just didn't take the last step first.
I was a Deputy Sheriff for several years. During that time, I transported at least 100 people (and this is a small county) on MIWs (Mental Inquisition Warrants), signed by a judge and which ordered me to take these people for a mental evaluation. These MIWs were granted because some family member went to the County Attorney and convinced them that the person was exhibiting signs that they may be a potential danger to themselves or someone else. Somewhere along the line, someone had determined that unless overwhelming proof could be determined by the examining facility, these people could only be held for 72 hours, then returned home. I've talked to Deputies from three other states and theirs are the same way. Several of these people I transported two and three times during my stint. Two that I know of bought firearms at some point after their MIW, one bought a rifle, the other a handgun. I had to literally rip the rifle from the guys hands because he said he wasn't going back. All these people had to do to buy those guns was lie to that one little question, 11f, on the Form 4473 and they got through the NICS checks!!!!!
With all the technology we have today, it would be very easy for those mental evaluation facilities to make some type of entry under that person's SSAN to the fact that they had, if nothing else, been evaluated for a potential mental problem, then there could be a "let's check into this a little more" button pop up at the NICS, maybe precluding that individual from getting the firearm legally. As it stands right now, they can't do that because of the health privacy act.
True, a lot of the weapons are obtained illegally, but we need to enforce the laws we have on the books right now, not enact new laws and I don't know if the Federal Government is the right way to go. How's the war on drugs going? The war on poverty? For any success in any of those two areas you can name, I can give multiple numbers of failures.
I love how; the Hollywood celebrities are crying over the latest massacre, and plan on doing a video about gun violence. Well, I cry over the massacre too and I deplore unnecessary violence, but those people make their living for a large part by starring in movies with gun violence. They say it's just acting, but they're making money from it and because they're stars, the public does the sheep thing and falls for their spiel. The majority of the big stars and politicians have armed bodyguards with them all the time, a large majority of the send their kids to private schools with armed security, but that's alright, because they're special and since they don't own the guns themselves, they're absolved an are able to loudly proclaim their distaste for firearms. ****, the simple fact that so many people listen and fall in with their spouting makes me want to puke, they're actors for God's sake, they know how to play a crowd!
Attack the problem, not the tool
