It seems that most people don’t want to believe that someone that they know is dangerous. I had a stalker that was bothering me for a couple of years and no one would believe that he was doing the things that he did because they seemed so crazy. Neighbors used to say that if I would just stop complaining about him, he would be fine. I used to sleep with this huge knife that my husband brought home from Vietnam, stuck between the mattress and box spring, with the knife pulled out from the sheath, just slightly, so that I could pull it out quickly. He finally got arrested, breaking into the house of the woman who told me to just leave him alone. When the guy got out of jail, the first thing he did was start to make telephone calls to me. He used the same reasoning, that we were “rich” and our kids had everything.
I think that’s the scary thing. Even when you know there is a crazy guy around, how do you protect yourself?
Maybe there is a system where you can alert the police to someone acting threateningly, and then maybe gun shops can send in who has purchased guns. A computer program could track to tell the police that the threatening person has purchased guns/ammo, and then the police can keep an eye on him.
I’m okay with regular people having guns, but I do think that it needs to be tracked some way. I don’t think illegals and people with criminal records should be able to purchase guns.