Has anybody heard any ideas that might actually reduce the number of mass shootings?
Armed guards at schools might help but where do you stop with that,,, malls, theaters, sporting events?
Sane people and responsible gun owners don't walk into a classroom and mow down a bunch of kids.
It seems that most of these people that do these shootings are mentally unbalanced. Can you just lock them all up? I don't think so.
Many of these people blame others for their problems and dream of getting even some day.
Put a sick mind together with violent video games where the object is to kill as many people as possible, then add a few violent movies where the hero gets even by gunning everybody down and you've got a problem.
Can you keep guns out of the hands of crazy people? Probably not, even if they're banned from owning weapons I'm sure they can get there hands on a gun easily enough.
Unfortunately a macho looking gun like the Bushmaster and some body armor is probably enough to make a deranged person feel like he has all the power he needs to "get even" with whoever he thinks the enemy is. Can you ban a specific gun just because it's popular with mass killers?
I see people on both sides of the gun issue posting links and statistics that absolutely prove their point but I don't see many ideas that sound like they'll work.
The extreme positions seem to be "ban all guns" or "everybody carry a gun" or something close to that. There's been very little rational debate just one side trying to shout down the other.
Meanwhile, some lunatic is sitting in his mothers basement just dreaming of the day when he finally shows everybody who's boss.
