Shooting of the Day
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Background checks? Psych checks? Useless. Tragedy would still happen even if someone passes a test.
Someone seemingly stable could answer all the right questions in order to obtain a gun.
Nobody knows what happens to these guns when someone takes one home. A relative could take it and use it. It could get stolen. A million possibilities of how it could get into the wrong hands.
What if someone is no longer mentally stable five years after being allowed to buy a gun? What if five years later, the gun owner now has severe depression? How on Earth can we monitor someone's behavior and feelings like that? We can't.
I personally know a man who shot and killed his wife, her lover, and then himself. He was seemingly stable. Very successful person. But he killed out of rage.
People pull triggers in the heat of the moment. And when they take a psych test, they are the FURTHEST thing from being in any kind of heat-of-the-moment situation.
- this pretty muchernexbcn
- And yet there's the likelihood it would help still. No use being defeatist about it.monospaced
- there's always an answer. always an 'I knew a man'Fax_Benson
- always an exception that proves the rule.Fax_Benson
- no point having tests because somebody might beat itFax_Benson
- No don't get me wrong, I'd rather have tests than no tests at all. It would decrease tragedy... but we'd still have tragedy.iCanHazQBN
- they'll never take our tragedyFax_Benson
- So not entirely useless like I said, but I don't think it would do much. The people who want guns would still get them...iCanHazQBN
- lol FaxiCanHazQBN
- think about the added cost of such measures on the good people which are the majority of owners. if a psych test is implemented and fails than what?deathboy
- then you've triedFax_Benson
- this escalation of policy of trying to stop people from killing people domestically while wars rage seems pretty sillydeathboy
- fucking insane attitudeFax_Benson
- are you for real? You're fucking about, no?Fax_Benson
- Im for real. After psych tests fail. And they will because anyone smart enough to fire a gun can get around that. than what? Think this through faxdeathboy
- What's the goal? Having a test that works 100% or decrease tragedy?pango
- Interesting conversation. Psychopaths are cunning, we know that. Let's deflate their motivating factors seeing as how we can't stop their meansgilgamush
- people pass driving tests and in a state quality controlled licensing schemes but cars still kill more then guns. do we care about lives or you guys also failedyurimon
- a self awareness bias fear and misplaced loathing via media test also. there is deeper psych reasons for bias in statistics that people ignore. sad to see thisyurimon
- Car killing in most case are accident. Gun killing. Not so much.
Again. Do you want a test that works 100% or so you want to decrease tragedy?pango - your argument invalid, http://www.telegraph…yurimon
- More like your argument is invalid. Did anyone die is that incident? What's number of lifes murdered by gun annually?pango
- Less than the number of car related fatalities. Mental health checks for all car sales. I don't know how to drive or own a car but have the moral authority togilgamush
- Demand uninformed and pointless legislature making it harder for honest people to get from a to bgilgamush