The problem is not firearms themselves, but the mental stability of the person. It’s just like using a hammer, knife, screwdriver, a vehicle etc. it requires an operator to use those objects. A firearm is no different it is an inanimate object and requires someone to pull the trigger. You cannot control a persons mental stability. Yes fi…
The problem is not firearms themselves, but the mental stability of the person. It’s just like using a hammer, knife, screwdriver, a vehicle etc. it requires an operator to use those objects. A firearm is no different it is an inanimate object and requires someone to pull the trigger. You cannot control a persons mental stability. Yes firearms are the easiest to use, however crimes committed using a knife, hammer, etc have happened though. There are mental checks being used for background checks when purchasing a firearm already in place. Shouldn’t there be a mental check for purchasing a knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, or owning a vehicle as well. You’re thinking it’s stupid to do a mental check for owning a hammer, however if the person encounters a crisis and it messes with their mental critical thinking and that’s the closet object to use, what stops the person from using the hammer as a weapon. Or when it comes to drunk driving, why do people drive intoxicated. Firearms are the easiest to use and can reach long distance and can cause damage quickly that part is true. However there are over 400 million owned firearms in the U.S., if firearms were a problem we would all be dead. The real question is how do you control a persons mental stability, if you can seriously answer that question then you have the answer on How to stop violence all together. However you cannot look at a person and say that person is mentally unstable, you would never know. For a person to go from stable to unstable, there are many reasons: loss of income, cheating, loss of family, becoming homeless, job loss, etc. Yes tragedies like this are hard to deal with, school shootings, however you cannot blame an inanimate object for those as it requires a person to operator the object. Just like car accidents, or someone drunk driving, instead of looking at something or someone to blame, maybe start to figure out why, if can understand the why part of all these tragedies then you can start to figure out the mental part.
The problem is not firearms themselves, but the mental stability of the person. It’s just like using a hammer, knife, screwdriver, a vehicle etc. it requires an operator to use those objects. A firearm is no different it is an inanimate object and requires someone to pull the trigger. You cannot control a persons mental stability. Yes firearms are the easiest to use, however crimes committed using a knife, hammer, etc have happened though. There are mental checks being used for background checks when purchasing a firearm already in place. Shouldn’t there be a mental check for purchasing a knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, or owning a vehicle as well. You’re thinking it’s stupid to do a mental check for owning a hammer, however if the person encounters a crisis and it messes with their mental critical thinking and that’s the closet object to use, what stops the person from using the hammer as a weapon. Or when it comes to drunk driving, why do people drive intoxicated. Firearms are the easiest to use and can reach long distance and can cause damage quickly that part is true. However there are over 400 million owned firearms in the U.S., if firearms were a problem we would all be dead. The real question is how do you control a persons mental stability, if you can seriously answer that question then you have the answer on How to stop violence all together. However you cannot look at a person and say that person is mentally unstable, you would never know. For a person to go from stable to unstable, there are many reasons: loss of income, cheating, loss of family, becoming homeless, job loss, etc. Yes tragedies like this are hard to deal with, school shootings, however you cannot blame an inanimate object for those as it requires a person to operator the object. Just like car accidents, or someone drunk driving, instead of looking at something or someone to blame, maybe start to figure out why, if can understand the why part of all these tragedies then you can start to figure out the mental part.