Bottom line is this. If you make it so this never happens, you live in a prison. Even in prison, they still kill each other.
No matter what path you choose, the price for freedom for everyone is death for some innocent people.
There are randos shooting strangers and there are governments murdering their citizens. One of these is vastly worse than the other on an exponential scale.
Red flag laws are the worst. Anyone can say anything about you at any time for any reason. That's not a law, that's fascism.
FBI has a billion or more people in their database for millions of reasons. One two three ...five hops from event X. If we complain about this guy getting a gun, we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
The criteria used to justify barring this person from gun ownership - loud mouth about religious beliefs, expressed desire to see X fry, open hatred and contempt for Y, would put everyone in the same category.
And that's what they want. Don't give them what they want.
Bottom line is this. If you make it so this never happens, you live in a prison. Even in prison, they still kill each other.
No matter what path you choose, the price for freedom for everyone is death for some innocent people.
There are randos shooting strangers and there are governments murdering their citizens. One of these is vastly worse than the other on an exponential scale.
Red flag laws are the worst. Anyone can say anything about you at any time for any reason. That's not a law, that's fascism.
FBI has a billion or more people in their database for millions of reasons. One two three ...five hops from event X. If we complain about this guy getting a gun, we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
The criteria used to justify barring this person from gun ownership - loud mouth about religious beliefs, expressed desire to see X fry, open hatred and contempt for Y, would put everyone in the same category.
And that's what they want. Don't give them what they want.