Posted on 10/06/2015 6:32:08 AM PDT by rktman
In a conversation with Business Insider promoting his new book, presidential candidate Ben Carson suggested creating a national database to keep "dangerous individuals" from accessing guns. In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, Carson wants to stop unstable people from slipping through state systems which are under no federal mandate to share information.
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1993--195 million(approx) guns in private hands. "Gun" homicides- 7 per 100k.
2015--300+ million guns in private hands. "Gun" homicides---(2010 latest data) 3.6 per 100k.
Of course, if you count the inner city gang bangin' related homicides----------
It is highly unlikely that you are going to be killed in a "gun" homicide.
Correct as required.
If this is the best he can come up with he needs to get back to lobotomies.
I am of the opinion that given the right conditions, that every single human being that is capable of cognitive thought and physical movement is capable of mass murder.
“...The rusty wire that holds the cork, That keeps the anger in...” (apologies to Pink Floyd)
We are all “potential” mass killers……...
Carson just doesn’t “get it.”
IRAN, there’s your list!
Dr. Carson is well intentioned, but incredibly naïve.
Under the control of an Obama or a Clinton you can be certain that every last one of us posting on here will wind up in that database.
This is a very bad idea, rife with potential for political abuse.
A national data base of “dangerous” and “unstable” people will likely include all non-PC folks. People who own guns will be by definition dangerous and unstable. Etc., etc., etc. In the USSR anybody who dared think the system was not wonderful were deemed nuts.
And this is why I am NOT voting for Ben Carson. Too many stupid ideas.
What defines a “potential mass killer?”
And, given the politicized behavior of psychologists, can you IMAGINE the amount of abuse that definition take? It would be about two weeks into the next RINO or Democrat administration that being a gun-owner would define you as a “potential mass killer.”
Hmmmm. Let’s see. You feel the ‘need’ to have more than one firearm? You feel the ‘need’ to store more than 100 rounds of ammo? Yup. You cra-cra.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong???
if you want to end the spectacle of mass murder, end the spectacle that follows... no murderer identification... they will be forever referred as Asswipe # 1 etc.... no more interviewing the parents or friends... they are useless as individuals. no more reading of their manifestos... the cops can read them to determine if anyone else is involved, but the determination of their mental capacity has already been decided, they are nutjobs.
make it illegal for anyone to mention they’re names forever.
they will have no motivation to cause such actions to bring on celebrity status.
The problem is that Democrats would cheerlead the database, and then put every member of the NRA in it.
Nothing could go wrong with this idea. Oh, Ben!
We won’t profile potential terrorists. How are we going to profile potential nutjobs, by their affiliation with conservative leanings? They will define how to profile someone and history be damned. Then we’ll all be on another database.
Mass murders are where 4 or more people, besides the perp, die.
Mass murderers are statistically insignificant as a part of overall murderers. The odds a young black male will become a murderer are fantastic compared to a mentally deficient person.
Maybe Ben should look at a different kind of registry.
In a few words: not a good idea at all. Hope he’ll give it second and third thoughts.
This is his second/third thought. Before, his idea was to ban gun ownership in “cities”.
Dear God, for a bright man, Dr. Carson has some dangerous ideas.
You don’t believe much in freedom of speech—or its importance, do you?
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