Obama Will Push For Assault Weapons Ban, Says White House

I'm as pro-gun regulation as the next guy, but it's patently obvious that there's something more afoot to the record gun related deaths in the US than the plethora of guns here or the large capacity magazines.  People in other nations where citizens possess guns in large numbers aren't killing each other as we are in the US.  

I would guess that much of it has to do with our culture of fear, of bullying, and our nature in this country to resort to violence as our first response.  As a nation, we admire greed and audacious brazen crookery.  Until we change that, at the top, in our government, all the rest of this is merely for show.
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Obama Will Push For Assault Weapons Ban, Says White House

So what are background checks going to check for?  

Then are we going to preclude classes of people from legally owning guns?

Background checks aren't going to uncover people with mental illness without ripping through HIPAA laws.  Andinarguably, only a fraction of a fraction of those with mental illness are violent and a danger to others.  

More money to treat mental illness?  YES.

Outlaw large capacity magazines?  Sure.

But remember that while this is the headline, politicians are working to make out society less civil by driving more of us into poverty.  
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