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huffingtonpost:

President Obama came down hard on gun-control laws during today’s Tumblr Q&A. See the president’s full response on gun control here.

Fina-fucking-ly.

we don’t have a monopoly of crazy people? have you looked on tumblr?

we have thousands willing to murder half the population over genitals and identity of said genitals, or for not being “different”

Also I’d want regulations for guns but in a manor that incorporates a background and mental health check, with a mandatory training on safety, and no autos or big rapid firing ones, just pistol for protection

(which took my father and I 3 fucking break ins and a crazy person attacking to finally get approved in California for one because CA requires a reason and a half times 50, yet never fucking get the police here to help till its way too late)

and a hunting rifle for hunting if said person has a hunting license and follows the rules.

BUT definitely a background and mental health check! problem is there is also many ways to get black market guns in this country as well, even on the internet

And it’s not an issue of, if you make it harder for people to get weapons for self defense it will only make the criminals better armed. Which is not true, the majority of guns on the “black market” were either sold to them by legal owners, stolen from legal owners, or just bought straight out as there are many states that do not require either full background checks or background checks at all on private sales.

The danger does not lay with the actual guns themselves, but the over abundance, ease of purchase, and lack of nationwide regulation (not meaning increased regulation, meaning that gun laws vary from place to place which makes getting illegal firearms into your area is much more of a possibility). It stems from people leaving their firearms out, not locking them up, because it doesn’t matter how many guns you have in your house if you aren’t home. I sympathize with those who take care of their guns, and are respectful of the power it gives them, but it would be foolish to assume that in america of all places, that the majority of people are responsible about anything, let alone firearms.

There is nothing wrong with owning firearms, there is nothing wrong with people owning multiple kinds of firearms, the problem is that a great amount of people are entirely irresponsible with them. And that irresponsibility is what causes unintentional death, that irresponsibility is what causes guns to be stolen by or sold to those that may use them to commit crime. Regulation should not be a feared word, background checks are not what should be feared, there should be legitimate fear in ban lists, but the only reason those exist is because of lack of equal regulation state to state and individual states attempts to curve gun violence. Mental health issues are serious as well and should be treated as well, but we are too quick to write off our own irresponsibility as a nation when it comes to firearm safety, housing, information, and regulation.

With how much of america has ignorant and irresponsible culture tenancies, we cannot just ignore blame to ourselves on issues such as these, as with all things for one sane person on an issue there are ten misinformed people, and for every responsible person there are ten irresponsible people.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map

“Of the 143 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally…”

the problem, at least with mass shootings, is not that people are getting black market guns or stealing guns someone left out or spoofing background checks or whatever

the problem is that people legally own guns, use them to shoot a lot of people, and then kill themselves