The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that "[it's] opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill . . . or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of firearms.” The Court went on to acknowledge “the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.”
When did the U.S. Supreme Court do this—way back in 2008 in the case of District of Columbia vs. Heller. (Look it up)
An AR-15 rifle was the weapon of choice at Sandy Hook, in San Bernardino, at a Las Vegas concert, an Orlando night club, an elementary school in Newtown, a Texas church and at Stoneman Douglas High School. In each case, multiple deaths from one weapon. If not the AR-15, what qualifies as a dangerous and unusual weapon?
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The NRA doesn’t tell us about this limitation and most of their stooges in Congress don’t care as long as they take the NRA hush money. So they argue that mental health is the problem.
But the argument shouldn’t be whether it's guns OR mental health. It is both. And both should be addressed.
