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  • iCanHazQBN0

    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

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