first, the second amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I watched a previous Supreme note that the current understanding of the 2nd amendment is a con job and absolutely wrong! Second, the concept of "a well regulated Militia" has absolutely nothing to do with how its viewed today by gun folk. All the rest follows the first two which, as far as I am concerned, is dead flat out wrong! That is particularly true of the first part about 'regulated'. That is being completely ignored! Basically its one of the worst decisions the Supremes has ever done and should be reversed (wishful thinking). I am not against guns, I don't have any but I'm not against them. Given the current lack of safety, however, I just might get myself one.
Now, its pretty clear how to fix the gun problem and we have lots of other nations that have done that. First makes sure that anybody who gets a gun should have a gun. The second thing is mental health. The United States actually doesn't have much of anything on mental health. Instead we let crazies go free until they hurt themselves or others and then we send them to prison, they get a little room with one meal a day for the rest of their lives. There are, however, exceptions. There is, for instance, one group that is putting together groups that can help folks who are in trouble and need a reset. This is particularly important for kids who seem to be doing much of the shooting these days. These groups actually exist and do really good work and every school should have access to that,. Then there are the guns themselves. Any guns designed to kill people should be blamed including cannons, fully automatic weapons, bazookas, etc. (as an aside. There used to be the "The Canoneers of America". They used to go out and blow up things like old barns.) There are also countries who have had a problem with mass shootings and they all, except for us, have put a stop to it. Amongst those are Canada, the UK, and Australia.
Right now I still think that the Dems should be saying, every chance they get; "If you vote Democratic your children won't be killed". I am not saying this because I love Dems but because its aabout the only way to stop the other side who are determined to get more kids killed. Oh, the school that was just attacked was one of the ones that the State of Texas made "safe". The problem was that nobody in the school seemed to follow any of the rules. Doors left open (all were supposed to be locked) was one of the main problems but there was more. If anybody has watched TV they already know about all of this.
