squidevery time there is a mass shooting, the conversation turns to whether or not guns should be legal
the only issue surrounding guns in these cases is the ease in which mentally ill people can acquire them--normal, reasonable people should and should continue to have access to any reasonable civil liberties
you will not have an easy time convincing law abiding and mentally sound citizens that they should not be allowed to own guns, and that discussion is pointless anyways. the conversations that absolutely need to take place after tragic events like this is how people with serious mental illnesses can so easily get guns but so often people confuse these events as opportunities to make points about gun ownership in general.
do you have any idea what the expenses for psychological exams on people are? do you know how easy it is to fake your mental condition, and how much more expensive it would be to disprove those people?
so what do you suggest, doing all those psychological exams on everyone with gun ownership? in 2013, there were almost as many guns as people, 1 in 3 households have guns
i agree that the gun law debate needs to stop because people think they need to get guns while they're still available, what actually needs to happen is that the government needs to pay off every person to turn their guns in and rethink gun laws once and for all
this will probably damage the US economy, but you have the pick between giving people their so precious "freedom" or making it easier for mentally-unstable or undereducated people to cause firearm-related homicides
http://www.shootingtracker.com/w/images/a/a0/2015_Mass_Shootings.jpg
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/134DB/production/_85876097_homicides_guns_624_v3.png
http://everytownresearch.org/school-shootings/
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/more-than-50-of-us-government-spending-goes-to-the-military/18852