Alright, one more response, then I'm done with this BS.

More than a few times on this thread alone, the suggestion was made that we should better enforce the gun control laws that we already have and it amazes me that you aren't learning the bigger lesson here. They don't work! You just presented the case to prove it.

The kid was arrested after making statements that he was going to shoot up a school in 2022 and yet Texas laws STILL allowed him to buy the guns to kill 21 people. Talk about a failure!

So here's my answer to your question...

These folks in Texas with violent mental problems aren't put on the list because there is no list. Not in any real sense and that's because it's simply too expensive. States like Texas will suggest psychological profiles as a political gesture to fake concern - they might even legislate it but they aren't actually going to pay for it. As I've already mentioned, psychology is expensive and it's ridiculous to think a government can profile every potential killer. Even if they could - who would want to live in a country where everyone is profiled?

By contrast, pulling products from the market is easy and relatively cheap to do. Governments do it all the time with drugs, imports and anything else that doesn't interfere with the small arms business and it's cash cow, the American gun fetish. Not only that but you don't have to rely on expensive psychological predictions that no one wants to pay for to have any real effect.

Will the banning of high capacity weapon categories on the market stop all the violence? Of course not. But countries all across the developed world have a proven track record that it DOES scale the problem down significantly. Incidentally, almost all of these other developed nations DO allow citizens to own guns with appropriate licensing.

So there's the policy that is proven to work to a significant degree (without interfering with the right to bear arms) and there is the policy that really doesn't work at all and the ONLY reason why Texas opted for the policy that doesn't work at all is because it doesn't matter to them if ANYTHING works as long as they can indulge in their fetish.

I know a lot of people here are gun nerds - but 19 children and 2 adults have just been killed in Texas. And the lawmakers there are totally responsible for it.

Let's face it... Common Sense Gun Laws are NOT a threat to the 2nd Amendment. Not one of them are preventing me from owning the guns that I have, or using them for recreation or self-defense. Not one.

I'm a pretty good shot too, so I don't need a high capacity magazine to try over and over and over again to hit the target. I can defend my home with my 12-gauge just fine and in liberal California you DO have a right to shoot intruders on your property.

The ONLY reason why Texan lawmakers are passing laws to combat common sense gun laws is because the NRA owns them and the NRA wants to provide a profitable market for gun dealers and manufacturers. It's that simple.

Ok smart guy, explain this to all of us since you are sooo much smarter than the rest of us.

Why are there school shooting now? We used to take our guns to school and there were no school shootings. Most of the guns were on gun racks on the back window of the truck. So, common sense says it’s not the guns.

Can’t blame it on crazy people because we had crazy people back then and there wasn’t any school shootings.

Can’t blame it on the laws, because the gun laws are more strict now than what they were then.

So, explain it to all of us, what changed? Guns? No! Craziness? No!

I wonder if you can explain it without calling me names? I really doubt it. I get the feeling you’re one of those people that will call someone names in the hopes it will upset, make them mad, etc. so they will slip up or give up so you can win the argument by default.

That is not true.

The semi-auto AR15 Sporter was developed by Armalite and produced for civilian use by Colt.
The M16 select fire weapon was adopted for military use.
They may look alike, but they do not function the same.

Ask a soldier, marine or navy SEAL if they would take an AR15 into combat, and he'll tell you to shove it up your ass.

In response to a question during a tactical defense course, our instructors - former Army Rangers - demonstrated why magazine capacity makes little difference to a determined shooter.

One instructor loaded an AR15 with a 30rd mag, the other loaded his with one 10 rd mag and had two more 10 rd mags in a belt pouch.

The plan was for each shooter to fire aimed shots at a series of targets with confirmed hits as fast as they could.

When the signal was given and the stop watch punched, the shooters went to work.
When all rounds were fired, the trooper with three 10rd mags finished around 5 or 6 seconds later.
And he wasn't even using tactical reloads.

Over decades, thousands of gun control laws at the local, state and federal levels, even the most restrictive,
have had very little to no effect in reducing gun crimes.
Even Clinton's 10 year AWB had no measurable effect in reducing gun crimes.
The only people affected - should I say "punished" - by gun control laws are the law abiding American gun owners.
Criminals and psychopaths don't give a damn about laws.
Criminals for Gun Control

Violent crime is an effect, guns are not the cause.

No one is more detestable than a narcissistic leftist who thinks he the smartest SOB on earth,
and even more detestable is one who dances on the graves of murdered children, politicizing their deaths,
and using this as a weapon to blame his political adversaries.