Every statement I make is well researched and fact based The one are that has baffled me for the last 40 years or more is what the hell makes conservatives think the way they do. One thing I did learn is there have been university studies that have tried to answer that question but no well defined answer has ever been forthcoming just vague outlines such as the social environment in which a child is raised. Or an oversized Amygdala. But I swear there has to be a better answer than those for it is obvious their brains are wired completely in reverse

They didn't harm the home owners in the previous home invasion they took what they wanted including the pistol that killed the guy playing hero. And if the dead home owner had called 9-11 from his up stairs office the invaders would not had time to rape anybody. An alerted police cruiser can be to a location pretty rapidly with In minutes. There better ways to protect ones property --with security cameras and alarms. And one should not be getting into gun battles in parking lots, theater's or other public places. Police officers are trained in these matters. Japan has as few as tow gun related gun deaths per year compared to 33,000 in the US. No guns are allowed in Japan

Every statement I make is well researched and fact based The one are that has baffled me for the last 40 years or more is what the hell makes conservatives think the way they do. One thing I did learn is there have been university studies that have tried to answer that question but no well defined answer has ever been forthcoming just vague outlines such as the social environment in which a child is raised. Or an oversized Amygdala. But I swear there has to be a better answer than those for it is obvious their brains are wired completely in reverse

Before Obama took office and for the eight years of his presidency we got a constant barrage by the NRA, Republican legislators, Conservative Media, and alt-Right conspiracy theorists that he was going to take away all guns (with "black helicopters" confiscating them in the middle of the night and taking the owners to "FEMA concentration camps"). He didn't do that. He did tighten gun control by executive order in January of 2015. Obviously, it was not enough.

The rate of murder or manslaughter in America by firearm is the highest by far in the developed world. We have had 18 school shootings in the first 45 days of 2018. Is it really right to do absolutely nothing to try and curtail this excessive violence? Or are more and more guns the answer? "Thoughts and prayers" are falling short and come always too late to save our children. And the nuclear argument that any control means the eventual end of Second Amendment rights to cease all discussions on the subject is wrong and irresponsible. The subject needs, demands, open and sincere dialogue for the sake of our nation's innocents and all citizens.

Debating the actual intent of the wording of the Second Amendment is useless; it no longer matters. You and I both know the Founding Fathers could not have possibly envisioned our present state and this is not 1776. What matters are American lives. We keep our guns, yet make sensible universal controls to try to insure greater safety for all. If there was a pandemic, and this rampant violence is a pandemic, Federal measures would be taken to protect the general public. Safeguards to help reduce this epidemic of murder and mayhem is simply just and wise. Help me see why we shouldn't act on better precautions. Or are we just to accept these tragic loses as "the cost of freedom," as O'Reilly said, willingly sacrificing our sons and daughter's for the "un-infringed" right to keep and bear arms?