House Passes Bill Allowing Mentally Ill Veterans To Own Guns

[gejohnston]

23. Remember what I said about about advocacy groups

No, they are not well respected, well researched, or any such thing. They are just well funded by a foundation and a couple of billionaires.
They are dishonest, just like the anti-pot crusaders were in the 1930s.
http://debunkthebradycampaign.blogspot.com/

I don't care if you don't have an issue with "slightly stricter regulations" or not. Of course, you wouldn't. You wouldn't be negatively affected by it. That should not be what public policy should be based on. It should be based on if it works or not. True, most of Europe restricts guns more than we do. They also restrict abortion a lot more than we do. I know people who wouldn't have an issue with slightly stricter abortion restrictions like, say Germany. The argument would be that the right to choose is different than other rights because it always ends in a human death. See how that works? An attack one right is an attack on all rights.

Not only Switzerland but also Iceland, Norway, Canda, Finland, Czech Republic are a few. France is kind of in the middle with New Zealand. Switzerland is more like Michigan as far as their purchase permit system goes. Only Canada has a long process. Not even the UK is that long. The difference is that they don't have the level of wealth inequality (remember the GINI Coefficient?). I was a "Bernie Bro" for a reason.

If you want to see a long and cumbersome process of getting a legal gun, see New Jersey, DC, USVI, and Mexico.

Since we know, based on the Wright-Rossi studies, criminals and gangs don't go to gun stores. Since most of our murders are drug dealers killing each other, how would they be affected by any regulation?
If you seriously want to save lives, these are the policies that will do more:
improved mental health, because 2/3 of all gun deaths are suicides. That is only half of all suicides. Also, China has more Sandy Hook level mass school murders than we do. It just happens to be crazed adults taking out kids with an edged weapon. Their mental health system is worse than ours.
Fix the economy and close the wealth gap
End the drug war. Not only the gang wars, Heroin ODs kill more people in this country each year than guns ever did.

Simple answers to complex problems are not solutions.

One more thing, what do you know about current gun laws?