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And look how effective they were. Oh, wait......
Which is another example of specifically why these laws are doing exactly nothing to stop the problem. How do you figure out who's too mentally unstable to own a gun before they commit a crime that shows they shouldn't have had a gun in the first place? And who's going to go to them and say "We know you haven't committed a crime yet, but we're here to take your guns away anyway."? And how many times do we have to hear exactly what you yourself just said: "We told the authorities he was crazy, but they did nothing."?
Then why do we still have more mass shootings in any given week than the rest of the world has in any given decade, combined?
Other countries have mental health issues too. Countries just as developed as the US. Just as much as we do. But they don't have daily mass shootings. Golly gee, I wonder what the difference between the US and those countries is........I guess we'll just never know,eh?
There is absolutely no reason why anyone needs a god damned AR-15 for "self defense". And schoolchildren's right to actually be able to make it home from school without turning into a bloody splattermark on the wall of a classroom shouldn't be trumped because you think you need an AR15 for "target practice" or whatever excuse you come up with because you need your dick to feel a little bigger.
Anyone who sincerely thinks they need an AR-15 for "target practice", "self-defense", or to "protect our country" (leave that to the trained ones, please) is the perfect example of a person who actually shouldn't have an AR-15 in the first place.
It's amazing how much you have typed just to completely ignore the entire point of my argument. Please get some reading comprehension.
It’s amazing how you say that as if you read it all, but completely missed that they responded to every point you were trying to make.
I can go point by point in his comment, but the core issue I am point out applies to all of it. We have the laws to have prevented this, we have the tools needed to stop so many mass shootings. But the overwhelming majority of the time cops don't enforce the laws, they're either incompetent, lazy or refuse to do the job they signed up for.
You can have every law in the world, you can have the best piece of legislation that perfectly outlines and covers every single possibility, but if nobody enforces it you don't have shit.
Guns in society can exist just fine, they already are one of the smallest types used in Violent crimes, we can repeal the NFA and get back fully automatic weapons and still be safe if we could have a functioning police force that enforces the laws that matter instead of revenue generating ones.