04-13-2024, 07:23 PM
pdq wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
This is a terrible tragedy.
People who prey on seniors like this are scum of the earth.
The shooter likely has some dementia or other age-related neurological issue making him more paranoid and anxious than a typical person would be.
So that's a situation where family members must secure guns, when their loved one is no longer making rational judgments. And could accidentally harm themselves or someone else.
Not really something gun control can fix. He probably owned that pistol for decades.
If he didn’t have a gun, he wouldn’t have killed the unsuspecting Uber driver. He would have (and should have) called the police first, but when you have a gun, you want to be John Wayne.
It’s like when little kids find dad’s gun and shoot themselves accidentally. Calling it a terrible tragedy - but nothing can be done kind of misses the elephant in the room.
There's a certain reality we have to acknowledge as Americans. 10s of millions of us have guns in our homes, glove compartments,sometimes carried on our person.
Those guns are not going anywhere, so people need to know:
Are my own guns well secured? So kids and crooks can't get them?
Do my elderly relatives have guns? Should they?
Do my kids play at homes with guns? Are they secure?
We have to live with these guns, and live is what we want to do.
After that, vote for people who will enact and enforce common sense gun responsibility laws.
Unless you plan to leave the country, that's all we got.