Thanks for the corroboration. You are correct in that firearms have not changed. Society has changed and with it the value of life has diminished severely. Those who take lives have also been raised up a notch or three in society rather than dropped down a few pegs as they should.

Every bit of this is all about the Left doing what it can to make America a Socialist Democratic State. While the number of mass shootings/murders goes up it is the Democrats who are insisting in letting convicts out of prison early, the Democrats who insist no perpetrators not posting bail as they should OR stay in jail where they belong. It is the Democrats AND NO OTHER who are now looking at making sentences lighter for violent crimes in Washington, DC.

What the hell are they thinking? Crime statistics of all types are going up, violent crime numbers especially are going up yet the Left wants to give criminals a break while making life harder for victims. I can only think, WTF????
I have spent over 30 years in law enforcement and corrections, always in maximum security prisons. The crimes these individuals have committed would stand one's hair on end and be the source of nightmares to many just thinking of those crimes forced on innocent victims. Yet it is the Left who cries for the criminals and not the victims as they should.

The Left wants more stringent gun controls but recently allowed Hunter Biden to get away with a crime of buying a firearm by a drug abuser. Here was a good example, a teaching moment, where the President's son would be held responsible for his crimes relating to purchasing a firearm illegally. So what happens? NOTHING at all. It is nothing but an example for others who do the very same thing; Hunter Biden got away with it and attorneys for the future will argue so should their client. Judges will say, OK, done deal. NO CHARGES. When will the Left hold criminals responsible for the crimes they commit? EVER?????

Dennis

Exactly right. I truly believe the Left does not care so much about mass murders. If they did they would do something about the murder of Blacks by Blacks in Democratic run cities. So called mass murders are nothing to the hundred and thousands per year of Black on Black murders. Yet the Left does not even mention those murders. Most likely that is the best example of how the Left REALLY feels about the Black race. Just let them kill one another off, no loss to society. Obama, from Chicago never went there to lead an anti violence parade nor has any other Democrat. Not in other Democrat run cities either. Amazing they just do not give a shit because it does not push their agenda of getting rid of the 2nd Amendment, of taking firearms from honest citizens who are not a problem. Criminals are the problem and yet the Left does all it can to get inmates out of the justice system. Wasn't it Obama who released 1000 drug dealers from the federal prison system? Drugs are the evil of our society, the binder that makes people rob, commit murder, commit home invasions to get money to buy more drugs. And yet Obama released 1000 of these drug dealers. Amazing.

Dennis

Two more mass shooting today one at a Baltimore block Party with 2 dead and 30 injured. The other at a Kansas night club with 9 hurt. Our gun laws did nothing to stop either of the violence. Yet, some still clammer for more laws being needed. When will these people come to the realization: laws (new or old) won’t stop evil doers. So, I suggest, let’s do away with ALL the laws currently on the books and re-write new laws to a more manageable six or so new ones which will cover all or at least most gun crimes. These new laws will cover but not stop evil any more than the 20,000 laws we now have.

Proposed new laws:

1) It is illegal to injure or kill someone with a firearm unless in self-defense. Brandishing a firearm at anyone is illegal unless you fear your life in eminent danger.

2) Anyone who has been deemed mentally ill may not possess or own a firearm until being given a clean bill of health by no less than 3 or more doctors.

3) Convicted felons may never own or possess a firearm unless cleared by a court.

4) Mandatory sentences if convicted of a crime committed with a firearm up to including life and or the death penalty.

5) In order to buy a firearm a mandatory background check is necessary. Severe penalties if the applicant intentionally lies on the application.

6) Minimum age to purchase or own a firearm is 18.

From a Google search. How many gun laws are there in the United States. Is 20,000 at least in the ballpark?
Yes. No one really knows for sure what the exact number is. But the 20,000 figure has been quoted by reliable sources for at least a decade. And many more have been passed in that time.

The proposed new laws cover (most) violence with a gun but will not stop gun violence any better than the 20,000 laws we now have on the books do. They will however make knowing gun laws easier to understand for the people who won’t abide by them anyway. Also, maybe it will make those who think we need more laws understand the fact that more laws haven’t, won’t and never will solve the problem.

Let’s stop thinking ignorant thoughts that more laws will solve the problem. We probably will never totally solve the problem of gun violence so let’s start thinking defense. Begin by doing things that will limit the opportunities evil doers have. Not by more laws and talk, but by deeds we can accomplish that may actually help.