>>Would you at least agree that we make it far too easy for nutjobs to get guns? Let's leave career criminals out of the discussion for the moment and talk only about the kind of people who go out and shoot up a mall, a church, a school, etc. Would you support laws that make it virtually impossible for these folks to get a gun other than by stealing it?

>I'm not at all opposed to some kind of system where 'sick' people don't get their hands on guns.

How would you identify a nutcase ?? And what about a temporary state of insanity ?? We all have a moment where you get insane in some degree.

>But lets bring the career criminal back into the discussion because these are the ones who really make up the statistics.

Wrong, wrong, wrong..... More than half of the gun homicides exists out of suicides. As I stated before only 0.2% of gun incidents were out of self protection. Do your research and find that most of the gun related incidents do not have anything to do with criminal offence.

>The mass shootings are horrific and grab the media spotlight. But far more
>people die at the hands of the gangbangers and robbers and the like. Just like in the Taylor case.

We don't have such a big problem up here and we don't carry a weapon. And do you really think that gun is going to help you when criminals are aware you have a gun and really want to harm you?? Naive, very naive ..