Recently in Seattle there was a gun buy back program. Opinions on those?
I think if they were buying of automatic weapons or something that is fine.
My main concern is that the government leaves us with basic weapons for defense, while criminals here have an abundance of weapons. Or far worse, some bs government tyranny comes into play as the current state of the US doesn't look well.
I say restrict which guns, detailed background checks, and then maybe they can stop their bitching. As it is, they're making it seem like guns are evil when in fact its the person holding it that has issue. But everyone's more comfortable labeling the killers a psychopaths, blaming guns, and ranting about how things could have been avoided.
Most of these shootings started with kids on pharmaceutical drugs such as Prozac. However the excuse said is that they went off it so they went crazy, when some of the drugs side effects are more harmful than the good it does.
I believe this is overlooked by everyone.
Then people are angry/emotional because of what happened and start blaming people or things. The gun didn't go "I am going to kill these children", it was someone with problems.
The shooter remains remembered as a lunatic who shot people randomly. When it should be further looked at to see what causes HIM/HER to behave like so, none of this media crap "Kept to himself....went off his drugs....completely lost it..." The same reasons have been given for the past shootings.
Now lets look at a more recent one, Chris Dorner. People are angry because people support the reasons Dorner mentioned. Doesn't mean they support his actions. Anyways, he for one had plenty of experience around guns. Now, obviously going out on a mission to kill those who did wrong against you or others isn't looked upon as sane, however he did so due the the fact that there's corruption and racism in many departments of authority that abuse their power. He lived through it all.
Now they're using his actions to help their Anti Gun policy get support. His actions may have been bad, but the blame went on guns again. They overlooked another persons reasons/cause, categorized him the same as past shooters and then said "LOOK SEE GUNS KILL PEOPLE".
Another example of how its the media and government that want focus on Gun Control is the school shooting at an Elementary. Guns were blamed again. Yet in China a guy went on a rampage with a knife killing and injuring plenty. Obviously what occurred here got more attention, but even foreign occurrences get mention on the news when its serious and especially when a similar even just happened here.
All guns should be allowed but in the right hands of the citizens not of authority.
Handguns however should be a basic right. If they were to ban guns, it would not be like other countries, because the guns are already here and are easily brought into the black market. So banning them would leave citizens open to gun violence without defense.
Grenades are illegal. Guess what? I know of people who have plenty of them.
Banning guns is ridiculous, restriction is acceptable. But the biggest thing I see the US avoiding is the rise of these actions due to illness/drugs that are legal and in Dorners case, corruption and racism.
This may sound funny, but have anyone seen the show "The Following" ? When they introduced it, my first thought was its acceptable to a make a show about how there's tons of people with illness following someone til death yet this is reality and has a high possibility of happening.
These days problematic people are ignored or worse made fun of, they go to dark places and truly dedicate themselves to their thoughts even til death. Some of these illnesses are made worse with legal drugs. But the main concern is guns?
In Dorners case, he was filled with rage due to injustices left unheard. He simply had it. His actions may be frowned upon but what is it that led him to that extent?
We look at the problem but avoid looking at any reasons/causes and leave it at "Phsycos".
