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We live in relatively free and open society, there will always be people who get past mental health screens. In school I did a 3 month rotation in mental health and patients on 5150's were released ALL THE TIME, as long as they did not meet the criteria for detainment. These people are out there, and many of these shooters are young men who aren't even part of the mental health system at the time they commit these crimes. Thats not going to change.
At the same time, more restrictive societies/nations have the same issues-sometimes with different weapons, sometimes with the same-but the common thread is that they have psych issues-following the law is not on the radar.
You want to talk about solutions? We can only do that when we admit reality-that these things will be a problem as long as society exists. Beyond that-CCW decreases both the odds of attacks and the death toll when they are committed. The data also shows that the biggest factor in stopping these attacks is getting someone with a gun to the scene as soon as possible-because when confronted these shooters almost always kill themselves or surrender-which stops the attack.
Try to divorce yourself from emotion and politics and think about this from an epidemiological point of view. Thats how we solve these problems, not attacking honest law abiding citizens as "gun nuts" (which, by the lefts definition includes YOU).
The only folks who earn that label...in my eyes has been defined in other posts in this thread. To me, a person who brags about what they will do in the event of self defense is just as sick as the murderer. Both are premeditated actions. If you have never been put in a situation that intense, you have no idea what you will do...you could curl up in the fetal position and beg for your life. It is not the action so much that bothers me...it is the blow hard,
I am more bad ass than you mentality. This could make your average person paranoid and quick to pull the trigger. Even in the event of a home invasion and you killed someone legally, who wants the stigma of that? You would still need an attorney, there would be an investigation, and in my case as a nurse and teacher...what would my workplace think if I shot a unarmed kid stealing my TV. I think the folks who brag about dropping a home intruder only see the kill...not the aftermath. This is what I see as disturbing. Do you wait to see if the intruder is armed...or is that too late?