Displaying your stereo on Facebook

bdp24 said:

"Have you heard? Trump just reversed Obama’s ban against selling firearms to mentally ill people. Insanity! The blood is on his hands."

Completely wrong. You need to read the Obama regulation and Trump's reversal. I hate Trump but this is the sort of misleading statement that makes things seem worse than they are and distorts the truth. It has been and remains a law that mentally ill people cannot purchase a firearm. It is part of the background check. The Obama regulation (it was never a bill...which means that the next President can change it) only added a Social Security database of mentally ill persons that was to be used in the background check. The problem was that this database included a lot of people who were no longer mentally ill or whose illness did not legally preclude firearm ownership.

On top of that, it didn't work anyway. So you had an executive order that trampled on the Constitutional rights of some individuals and was also ineffective in preventing gun violence. And if you still think it was a good regulation then it should have been a bill, passed by the established legislative processes in this country. Of course, its flaws were evident to all so it never would have passed as a bill.

Of course, its not the law abiding citizens carrying guns we should be worried about. If a thief is trying to rob you and you pull out a shooter, he may very have one also, then it could be the good old, bad old wild wild west revisited ......not something us non tooled up bystanders want to be stuck in the middle of. As, the average Elmer Thud gun carrying ahole, can't shoot for toffee. 
If, I ever get held up by a thief with a gun, knife, or sword (really?) then  nothing on my personage is worth me ending in up hospital, or on a morticians slab.
Its about 200 years to late for gun legislation. 
All we can do is be lucky, its a jungle out there......sadly.

I agree about the value of "things". Not worth dying for. Probably not worth killing for. The problem is, things are not the only precious items in my home.....and someone who comes into your home while you are there is likely to be a threat to your life or the life of someone you love....who also just happens to depend on you.

How each of us confronts these (admittedly rare and remote) possibilities is personal. For some, they are less rare. And even then, how we plan to deal with them remains personal. And if how we deal with them is legal,ethical and moral, then I have no criticism. 

^^^
n80 ...

I, for one, appreciate your common sense approach. Cudos. 

Frank