The mental health thing does need to be looked at. I agree that a certain diagnosis should not necessarily be a factor, but those who have shown a predisposition to being suicidal/homicidal should not be allowed to purchase. Not that it would stop them if they were determined to get a gun.

An assault weapons ban is nothing more than a feel good move. They will still be used in crimes like this because there will be thousands of them still out there that had previously been legally purchased.

Given the usual response time to a situation like this, would there have been any fewer casualties if he was armed with a revolver or limited to a 10 round magazine?

To me, it seems like maybe American society needs to look at why som many people feel compelled to commit mass murder? Has the per capita number of guns in America gone up at the same rate of mass shootings? If so, then maybe the number of guns is an issue, but if it hasn’t then it’s a societal problem.


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