I have repeatedly warned that there are mentally disturbed people on the left who support the NRA, and own weapons. I also warned one of these guys might cut loose one day. Wayne LaPierre and the NRA insisted that one of Obama's executive orders that said people who have mental disorders so severe that their social security checks are sent to a third party, shouldn't be allowed to have a firearm, and Obama's EO be revoked. Trump, with the blessing of both republican houses, did just that.

Personally I don't care if a person has a guided missile in their backyard, but I do believe they should be a responsible guided missile owner. I don't believe people with mental disorders are in that category, trump, the NRA, House and Senate republicans disagree, but I believe I'm right. There are nuts on both sides who own firearms, and there are plenty of them who are more than willing to use them to settle a political score. I don't see how this can be a partisan issue.

I enjoy shooting my guns. I believe in the value of responsible gun ownership and support the 2nd Am. 

Still, I recognize that we have a serious gun problem in this country. We have too many guns in illegal circulation and access to ownership is too damn easy. I found it more difficult to (legally) hunt, fish, and drive a car than to own a device which was created to end human life. 

This makes no sense. 

Compunding the problem is the fact that this country has a serious mental illness problem and does little to nothing to deal with that problem. If anything, we stigmatize mental disease to the point that people don't even want to seek out the help that they need.

These two problems create a perfect storm for gun violence. 

Instead of addressing this storm head-on, we've actually moved in a more dangerous direction...a direction oppossed by just about every law enforcement agency and the CDC (among others) by increasing gun access and use through campus carry bills and by ending gun-free zones in many states.

One reason for this is that we have a small, but dogmatic population of gun zealots who prioritize guns over safety (and common damn sense).

Sadly, I see no easy fix to any of our problems. And honestly, I don't think there will be any real movement on these issues UNTIL groups like the NRA start working with politicians in fashioning tighter gun restrictions. One constraint on this movement is in how places that have been more proactive in addressing America's gun problem have not enacted restrictions that actually work. I do believe that to pass meaningful reform, the anti-gun faction needs the expertise of the pro-gun faction. 

As long as we are tribed up and unwilling to work with each other on common sense reform, nothing will be solved. 

Oh, and GOP-driven changes to the ACA will further exacerbate our mental health issues in this country rather than work towards fixing them.