While painfully tragic, each of those incidences were not responsible gun ownership IMO
Completely right, but the right fought for each of them to have as many guns as they wanted right up until they killed someone. The term responsible gun owner wasn't accurately applied to all of those listed, was it?
Mothers with guns & young toddlers should keep the two as far apart as possible, with safeties & locks on. The teen shouldn't have loaded the gun when messing around with it & others nearby. It can really be just that simple. And sometimes even with all safety precautions in place, shit does happen even with the best.
But that's hardly the point now is it? Gun advocates are fighting to keep everyone's Constitutional rights in place, so people like yourself don't destroy this country & the laws in which it was founded on, one right at a time. And those Constitutional rights are for EVERY citizen and have been in place for what? 230 years??? And the people have carried guns since the Mayflower landed. Only since the 20's or 30's have there been attempts to control ownership and that was against the gangsters with Tommy guns. Then not until the last several years did it include more regulations.
The left won't be happy until we're completely unarmed like the rest of the world and completely controlled by the government........which was the whole fricken point of the Founding Fathers to establish the USA as a free country.
That same Constitution guarantees your sides rights to assemble & protest when you don't get your way, gives the MSM the protection to report the lies, half truths
and opinions as facts, that political figures can plead the 5th just to save their ass.........get the idea?
Any laws, whether local, state or federal are there for the protection of it's citizens and it works for MOST.....but there are always going to be someone that walks scott free when they are guilty, someone that's innocent is behind bars or executed, and some nutjobs are going to go bezerk or innocents are going to get killed or hurt.
But can you imagine this country without that same Constitution??? Just think about it.....China at Tienemen Square where the students were shot & mowed down with tanks by the government because they were protesting & demanding certain rights. Actually we'd be just like North Korea.......the press has to only report what Kim wants, if govt doesn't like you they can kill your family right in front of you so they can control you for their own good. Work your ass off in the rice paddies until your back is breaking, just to give it all to the govt. You are only allowed 1/2 cup per day per person and are savagely tortured & beaten if you keep an extra cup because your wife is pregnant & starving on the legal ration.
ALL of our Constitution......even those difficult parts......are to keep all of us from becoming THAT.
If you want to change those laws for a workable good for everyone, then you need to understand more tougher background checks &/or outlawing gun ownership isn't the way to keep the people safe. 1.) provide better mental health services and most important 2.) EDUCATION to ownership. Require a safety & education class(es).