Nashville

Terrible to hear and I am so sorry for your loss.

I hope that such a post would not ruin your time here. This is a significant issue that needs to be addressed, I just don’t think anyone has a good answer on how to. No child should be scared to go to school in our country and frankly I would t blame them for being scared in this current environment. It’s something I never had to deal with and I don’t consider myself that old.

Unfortunately the easiest thing for politicians to do is pass some feel good “gun control” legislation that doesnt do anything to prevent future occurences, it just calms their constituents for the time being. They are too scared and/or lazy to dive into the real root cause of these issues, primarily bc no political leader wants to deal with the mental illness issues our country is facing.

We saw this first hand here in CT when that sicko took far too many very young angels from us. The subsequent legislation IMO did nothing to prevent a future occurrence and has made it an absolute nightmare to be a law abiding gun owner.

We truly need great thinkers that are center balanced to engineer solutions. Unfortunately I fear that is far away. In the meantime IMO we need to hold people accountable. If these mentally unstable people are being supported by their parents and knowingly allowing them access to firearms, they need to be tried for the crimes committed by their mentally unstable kids. In the CT incident the mother fortunately got what she deserved but the dad was living elsewhere and continued to have a nice life in finance at GE, from my understanding. Meanwhile the sued the gun manufacturers but not the dad. Accountability needs to be implemented asap

Pepe,

I'm sorry for your loss and hope this does not create anything but a productive discussion.

I would respectfully ask these questions in return: What do you consider middle ground? What further restriction would keep a mentally deranged criminal from breaking another rule/law/regulation?

How was the gunman stopped?

Does the specific caliber that killed someone matter?

Would the loss be easier if the gunman used a low capacity handgun vs a rifle?

Evil people will use whatever is available to them. This murderer was sick and chose to go after children... there is a special place in Hell for that one

My heart breaks for the people and families impacted by this.