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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: 3 killed at Maryland mall [View all]billh58
(6,642 posts)we address "the comprehensive conditions that brought that person to the point of wanting to kill" and determine that the best course of action would be to have all gun purchasers undergo a mental health evaluation. Would you be comfortable with that remedy?
Or, how about a national database that tracks all mental health issues, criminal activity, and other forms of anti-social behavior, and mandatory universal background checks before the purchase of a gun? Would that be a solution?
Or, are you proposing that we address all of the underlying social ills which account for most crime in this country, and just allow gun violence to continue unchecked as a cost of living in the land of the free?
ALEC, and the Koch Brothers, through their right-wing terrorist organization (the NRA) also claim that there is absolutely nothing that we, as American Democrats, can do to address the gun violence epidemic in this nation. Millions of Democrats disagree.