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The focus should be on finding and stopping the deranged people before they explode, not banning the tools they use. You can ban one potential weapon. They'll just select another one.
This is exactly true. And we now own this responsibility, lock, stock, and barrel. Like it or not.
A lot of people say, correctly, that it is not a gun problem, it is a mental health issue. But irrespective of that, society is now going to make it the gun owners's problem. So we're either going to step up to the plate and accept it, or we're going to get regulated away. Period, no other options.
IT IS OURS!
Wayne Lapierre had better be at the desks of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the National Institute of Mental Health, and a half dozen other places I can't even think of right now saying, "American gun owners can sway billions of dollars from Congress. What do you need to diagnose and treat early onset mental illness. We are your new sponsors."
Do not believe for one second that the Secretaries and Under-Secretaries of those organizations are not just as political as the Pentagon. They've just always had different sponsors. Dollars are dollars. They'll take ours and learn to love us.
I think the White House petitions are a little stupid, but they're getting a lot of attention. The "anti gun control" petitions that I've seen are all begging. They don't offer any positive steps. We have to take ownership. So I just created one that proposes a $2 tax at retail sale per gun to find mental health.
It's here. http://wh.gov/nTna
You can't search it yet because it's too new. If you don't like this idea, propose something better. But I'm telling you that the gun community had better be the driving force on the solution.