Americans have this thing called the Constitution which states citizens have the right to bear arms. Now, when you allow government to make subjective decisions about who can own and who can't, it's no longer a right and nobody can have guns but criminals somehow always find a gun. If you know anything about what happened, you will find the shooter is actually a very normal person and not some gun nut so any amount of psych testing wouldn't have found anything. What happened was wrong and both sides could have done better to avoid such a situation. Doesn't really matter because shooter is going to jail. And many state do background checks when selling firearms so it's not like a felon can just walk in and buy a gun. But when you're not a felon, how do you predict a person's future behavior by some magic questionnaire?
We should potentially revisit the second amendment, considering gun deaths. The Constitution is a living document, and perhaps enough unnecessary deaths are occurring to warrant a fix. Maybe it should be a privilege versus a right.
The 2nd amendment is different from the Castle doctrine. You can have the 1st one without the 2nd one.
A militia to deter occupiers is different from protecting one's own house. And cases like this go beyond the Castle doctrine. This made had no legit fear for his life. Wiggling keys in a door and jiggling door handle don't equal legit fear. You have to at least identify a threat. This shooter was irresponsible and wrecked it for many other responsible people. Government will use this to weaken individuals' 2A rights.
Got to love this argument from Americans. It's okay for us to have stupid as fuck gun policies that kill tens of thousands of people a year because we have a Magic Document that says we have to have a stupid as fuck gun policy that leads to tens of thousands of deaths per year and absolutely nothing can be done about it!
