Markp
Ultimate Member
- Dec 22, 2008
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Thing is, I don't want a mentally disturbed neighbor to own a machine gun before the SHTF, or even any firearm for that matter.
The thing is that the government can't solve that problem. Let's assume that, rather than being a psychologist, I was mentally disturbed instead, a real psychopath. I had it together enough to fly under the radar, but internally a deeply disturbed and sadistic person hell bent on extracting revenge on a particular group, institution, or other entity in which large numbers of people were involved. Now let's make me moderately intelligent, modestly educated (high school education with shop classes), and working full time as a welder making a decent wage.
How would you stop me from getting a machine gun and engaging in mass violence?
The correct answer is, you couldn't, I would be able to acquire one with ease in less than 24 hours unless I was incarcerated for some other crime.
We can talk about all these stupid proposals all day long on how to prevent the criminal or the insane from acquiring weapons, but we can't even keep drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes out of high schools.