Agreed and we need all guns to be registered, but I think we focus too much on the people. We also need to focus on holding the manufacturers and dealers to a higher standard of accountability. There should be no opening for straw sales.
Not in order to prevent situations like the one in Maine. No amount of regulation and registration is going to help prevent those kinds of things from happening. Every single mass shooting of this nature involves an individual undergoing a mental health crisis. Most people think something like this is somehow foreseeable and in some cases that is true and there are warning signs, but that is most often not the case. One moment they were fine and the next moment they weren't. I hate to point out the odd connection between the frequency of mental breakdowns and war, but during the last middle east war we lost five service members on our base alone to mental illness. Our neighbor randomly called the FBI to report herself for war crimes, she woke up that morning absolutely certain that she was Saddam Hussein. This is only going to get worse as the international wartime situation continues. There is going to be a breakage with every escalation.
Back to the straw sales situation. I would like to discuss how these play into the situation at our boarder. They ship fentanyl into the United States and use the money they make here to purchase weapons through private sales that they then smuggle across the border and use to fund their private wars. We are the reason why the Drug Cartels control Mexico. We might want to consider how our nations issues affect the nations around us and not just our own personal reservations regarding the government's ability to track the weapons we purchase.
