While I agree with your statements about the number of guns I find it rather ironic. You have always put John Lott on a pedestal, and what is the title of his book? "More Guns, Less Crime". The problem I find with your statements is that most true right wingers do not want ANY gun control, and forcing a person to be investigated for mental well being before being allowed to purchase a gun would be a violation of their 2nd Amendment Rights. What is the NRA's position on such a requirement?
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
You make a lot of assumptions that just aren't true. Put John Lott on pedestal??? I just give the man his just due and don't attack him because he followed the statistics to a conclusion that I don't like (like so many on the left).
I don't think you can really say what any "true right winger" thinks. Your idea of a right winger is a misleading caricature created by the left. The NRA helped to write the first gun control laws because as any "true right winger" knows, not everyone should have access to a firearm. Unlike the left (Hillary for one), you don't hear anyone on the right saying to give back convicted felons their constitutional rights (including voting and firearm ownership).
As for "forcing" someone....what does that mean anyway? Most of our lives are on record. It just takes someone to look up a record. Where is the force? It is the left that forces people to take sensitivity training, harassment training, violence in the work place training, rape training, etc. No, it is the left that uses force. We on the right just mention that IF you REALLY want to do something about mass shootings then you're going to have to open up those mental health records. Not an endorsement for or against, just an understanding of the reality that the left refuses to grasp.
I don't know (neither do you apparently) any OFFICIAL position taken by the NRA on mental evaluations but we do believe that a gun in the hand of a crazy can, in many cases, be countered by a gun in the hands of a sane person on the scene.