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Rhiannon12866

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6. I completely agree, the last thing we want is for the mentally ill to have access to guns
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 05:45 AM
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And wouldn't anyone have to be seriously mentally ill to shoot an entire classroom full of first graders, a grocery store full of shoppers, a Bible study class of senior citizens or their classmates in school?? All those abominations have happened and it's up to the laws we make to do everything we can to prevent those horror shows from ever happening again.

And I was a member of two rifle teams in my youth, one at my summer camp where I learned to shoot and the second as the only girl on the rifle team at my high school. And I never remember any threats, the guns were safely locked away when not in use to practice or at a match. But obviously times have changed and we need to change with those times. I'd be fine if guns were only available to law enforcement and I'd certainly hope that they were evaluated regularly.

As for the felon-in-chief, he's regularly been shown to not be playing with a full deck. But we know that he calls the shots (literally) among the group of unqualified sycophants who he likes to surround himself with.

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