• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This guy was a firearms instructor. Literally a good guy with a gun turned into a bad guy with a gun.

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      1 year ago

      The key point is that he was also recently institutionalized after making threats and SHOULD have had his guns seized, even under existing law.

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        1 year ago

        Agreed, but we haven’t been enforcing red flag laws consistently since people start bitching about “mah rites” whenever you try to disarm someone threatening to kill their ex-GF.

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          Most of these laws, and most of the historic gun control in the US, is really intended to be used to keep guns from the “wrong sort” of people, and that means leftists and brown people generally. Crazy white guys were never the target of any prior firearms legislation or enforcement mechanism. That’s really the core of the problem here.