to the extent possible. To expect them to line their students up, to get them to cover maybe in a closet or out a window and also focus on shooting a gunman is absolutely insane. It's totally unrealistic.
And banning the sale of specific types of guns to people under 21 would have done nothing to stop the shooter in Las Vegas.
Most of us no longer live on the range or in the wilderness or somewhere where we can hunt or where we have no law enforcement protection. We don't need high-powered guns. We need to be safe from high-powered guns.
It also is absurd to think that depriving people identified with mental illness from having guns will solve our problem. First, people who have emotional problems are usually not all that dangerous. Second, people who are angry at their wives or girlfriends or angry for some strange reason are not always people who have been identified as mentally ill. Third, most people who are identified as mentally ill are probably not dangerous in the sense that they would shoot someone. That's a prejudice that would be worsened if we just increase background checks.
I could go on and on but the only way to stop the gun violence is to pass laws that ban certain guns and certain attachments to guns.
If we have to change the Constitution to do it. So be it. Enough is enough.
Hunters should be allowed to have hunting rifles. And anyone else who wants a gun should have to go through a rigorous examination that includes making sure they have never abused their family members or significant others and are extremely responsible.
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