Recent content by BadAtScreenNames

Yep. At any given time, 28 million Americans suffer from mental illness of one kind or another. Even if you focus on more severe illnesses such as schizophrenia, you're looking at 2 million Americans. If that past 500 mass shootings were all carried about by schizophrenics, do you restrict the...

It is arbitrary, but I can't think of a better solution. I know a guy who recently bought an older handgun from a co-worker. I asked my friend where he did the FFL transfer. He said, "Huh? I just bought it." This, from one of the nicest, most law-abiding people I know. I'm not talking about...

My Platform for Reducing Gun Violence and Violent Crime in the USA: 1. Explore policy options that would encourage and help more citizens become armed, especially in violence-stricken communities. This could include a one-time forgiveness clause for people who have been in the justice system...

I'm far from a gun free zone supporter, but I think that eliminating the law will have as little impact as the law itself. As you say, nobody intent on slaughtering lots of people will go to a rifle range or police station, but there will always be plenty of soft targets. During the past few...

Absolutely. There is a serious violence problem in black communities and that culture is a factor. The point that I was aiming for--however ungracefully--is that American white communities are not lacking in violence. U.S. whites don't die at the rates that U.S. blacks do, but they do kill each...

You're right: 50.6% of U.S. murder offenders and victims are black. But 45% of U.S. murder victims are white. And white murders fellow whites at far higher rates than blacks murder whites.

I traded my Walther PPQ for a CZ-75B. No regrets.

People interpret the Constitution many different ways. Arguing that your interpretation is the correct interpretation is like telling a Catholic he's going to hell unless he's born again as a Baptist. Along the same lines, many Catholics don't subscribe to all of the church's tenets, just the...