Concerning Guns and freedoms and damnit all
Disturbed people do disturbed and confusing and illogical things. We know that are a gratuitous numbers on the streets, behind bars, in private and public homes.
These people after diagnosis are deprived access to dangerous things, but we do not force screenings or hospitalization for various reasons.
Angry, drunk and jealous people do things that are confusing and illogical. We cannot account for them at all moments.
Yet we can perhaps make it a little more discerning to access the tools by which they make mayhem. Yes, I've seen the studies on England where there is an increase in knife attacks, but the death toll shows lower and the amount of lethall attacks significantly lower.
My personal beliefs aside, how comfortable are with having access to tools (for hunting, protection of crops/family/etc) being so easily turned into weapons of pain or murder? Most of the people I know who own guns are sensible but there are also people who fall on and off their medication, people who (like the recent Kc chief murder/suicide) hit something that breaks them (potential mental illness aside).
I'm conflicted on this logically between rights of the few versus rights of the majority.
These people after diagnosis are deprived access to dangerous things, but we do not force screenings or hospitalization for various reasons.
Angry, drunk and jealous people do things that are confusing and illogical. We cannot account for them at all moments.
Yet we can perhaps make it a little more discerning to access the tools by which they make mayhem. Yes, I've seen the studies on England where there is an increase in knife attacks, but the death toll shows lower and the amount of lethall attacks significantly lower.
My personal beliefs aside, how comfortable are with having access to tools (for hunting, protection of crops/family/etc) being so easily turned into weapons of pain or murder? Most of the people I know who own guns are sensible but there are also people who fall on and off their medication, people who (like the recent Kc chief murder/suicide) hit something that breaks them (potential mental illness aside).
I'm conflicted on this logically between rights of the few versus rights of the majority.