Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

That’s true to some extent. But the science has come a long way in the last 34 years, too. And the fact remains that we have legions of untreated mentally ill people here. And very likely we can impact gun deaths to a far greater extent through healthcare laws than gun laws here

Healthcare will actually reduce mass shootings, suicides, *and* save thousands of lives directly. And with how DC works, they’re unlikely to do either one as it is, much less both. But let’s push for the one that will actually help the most folks, and will actually work.

Yes, we need accessible mental healthcare. But you can’t force people to see a doctor or take meds. People don’t realize they are ill. They don’t appear to be. There is no cure or even treatment for many illnesses. We know if we are making/legally selling a certain kind of gun.

So, what does that do? There are over 350 million *unregistered* guns here, and people have been making millions of AR-15s at home for a couple decades now. And will still be able to do it - easily - even with a ban. You can’t put the toothpaste back into the tube.

I think the solutions, here, are one of those “complex, but right answers,” Steve. I can see why you are tempted to take the other path—it’s popular, as your header suggestsI’ve gotten toothpaste back into the tube on several occasions.

“Ban guns” is not “complex but right”. It’s simple and wrong. “Complex but right” is to solve our socioeconomic inequality in all forms. That will solve the gun problem.

No one is proposing a "gun ban". That is dishonest spin. We want the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 to be renewed. Everyone that wanted to hunt in the 90s got to hunt.