Wild West Politics?

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

The price of the freedom of gun ownership is that occasionally somebody gets one who is mentally unfit.

While there is a grain of truth to this, what I actually hear is an excuse to do no better than we have done.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

While there is a grain of truth to this, what I actually hear is an excuse to do no better than we have done.

Of course not: that's the prominent mentality. The right to gun ownership is so innate that to have to think of ways to make it safer for all is ludicrous. "You can worry about crazies and their rampant access to guns when I lift a cold dead finger to do anything about it."