Once again, Democrats are capitalizing on death to grab your guns

American Thinker ^ | 24 Mar, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

They use mindless fear to justify the seizures because they cannot possibly win their gun-grabbing arguments on substantive grounds.

The Democrats, whipped into a frenzy by shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, are once again coming for the Second Amendment. The Constitution, the relative rarity of mass shootings, the overwhelmingly positive use to which people put guns – none of that matters. The Democrats want an unarmed population and they will use whatever opportunity presents itself to achieve that goal.

Joe Biden freely professed his ignorance about events in Boulder but was certain that taking guns from law-abiding citizens was the fix:

I want to be very clear. This is the one thing I do know enough to say on in terms of what's happened there. While we are still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he used, the guns, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that apparently have taken place with those weapons involved here, I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps to save lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a Senator. It passed, it was the law for the longest time...we should do it again.

[JimRed]

The loony bins who wield the guns are the problem. The mentally ill and delusional folks who decide to take their frustrations and vengeance out on the public.

Anyone who can not be trusted to be armed should not be running around loose.

[HotHunt]

I agree with you.

When I was a young kid, mentally ill people were institutionalized in psychiatric or mental hospitals. They were "committed" to protect themselves and, of course, their families and the community.

In the 50s through 70s, the mentally ill started to be released from mental hospitals to be treated on an outpatient basis in their communities. Better drugs were available and the public started to turn against institutionalizing patients. The film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" helped turn public opinion against mental hospitals, which had the reputations of mistreating the patients.

But as with so many government programs, wishful thinking and the unintended consequences of not so well thought out policies, many patients weren't treated or committed crimes and the prison populations swelled with the mentally ill. Many became drug addicts and homeless, which is still the case today.

I haven't paid any attention to who these latest two shooters were in Georgia and Colorado, but you don't do these things without your thought processes misfiring. Neither one of them should have had a gun.

But how does society stop it? I personally think the right to be free and bear firearms means, as a society, we have to accept that there are going to be shootings of innocents once in a while. Comes with the territory unfortunately.

Brief History of Deinstitutionalization