Originally Posted By: totegoat
Its the mentally ill killers that are threatening all of us. Our 2nd amendment rights are at risk due to the insane.
Most of this is because we let the seriously deranged walk among us. Starting in the 60's, as the abuses and shortfalls of our state institutions came to light they simply shut them down instead of fixing them. Now we just shove pills on people that used to kept separate from society.
We are also fighting a losing 30 year war on drugs which has fueled violence on our streets to prohibition like heights.
And then there is the whole slow long death of the American dream, leaving many depressed, angry, and hopeless.
We have serious societal ills that are the real malady in America. The gun violence problem is the symptom, not the real disease. At least that is the way this libertarian minded individual sees it. I don't blame an inanimate object with no intrinsic good or evil like many in the political class do.