Quote from L-Kabong:
Nonsense. More red herrings. The state already insitutionalizes people against their will if a courts deems them imminent threats to themselves or others. You can't simply deprive a person of his freedom just because he is crazy, psychotic, or schizophrenic.
It's the combination of an assault rifle - any gun in fact - in the hands of a lunatic. Not the gun in and of itself, not the lunatic in the abstract.
In the name of protecting 2nd amendment rights we don't need to strip the rights of others.
What do you want to do, have the Feds impose a mental sanity patrol in every town, encourage people to report odd behavior, and have the feds yank suspicious characters out of their homes and undergo psychiatric examination? Let's establish a police state so we can be free?
What could the government do about Adam Lanza before the fact? Nothing! What should it have done? Nothing! It had no basis, no cause to.
His parents should have put him under care. Unfortunately, he was living with his mother, who was a gun nut.
kabong, you are at a severe disadvantage here. You are being reasonable and rational.