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"My point being alcohol reduces inhibitions which, in turn, will increase shooting deaths exponentially."

Agreed. No carry while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

"Arming everyone fixes nothing when you have mentally ill, addicts, and just plain stupid people with a chip on their shoulder."

The majority of people who fail to control themselves or perceive reality are abusing drugs. Most people with alcohol problems are abusing drugs. Look at the statistics on drug abuse. Way too many in this country. If enough of them were busted and had records, many of them would stop carrying weapons. Murders would go way down.

And let's face it. This is a nation of bastards, who weren't properly raised by caring fathers. Many good fathers (along with the bad) were shut out of their children's lives. Many of the children of divorce were raised by mothers who did whatever pleased them in the moment. Bad boys, anyone? The super predators are here. Children need both good mothers and fathers. That doesn't include adultery, the partying that goes with it and irresponsibility.

One problem with disarming every person who's had a minor neurosis, is that many of them recover and become solid personalities (bush fever, temporary depression from living with psychopaths or physical illnesses, bad trivial habits, unwise use of time, etc.). Most of them are harmless, even when affected. The anti-Second-Amendment left is itching to disarm as many subgroups of the populations as possible.

Lucid members of those subgroups get fed up with being singled out and stop caring about the Second Amendment rights of others or even work against them. On top of that, many people who lack self-control and take risks will obtain firearms and carry them anyway.

Radical Democrat factions (feminists, for example) often issue a call to "stop" some kind of "violence" or other. We can't stop all violence. Human beings are not robots. There will always be violence.

So those who say that it would be better to give every person without a history of incompetence the benefit of the doubt for bearing arms have a good point. The trash will be taken out for the most part. Some innocent people will be killed along the way. But it's better than the old regime, when we were defenseless against those who carried anyway while looking for trouble.