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Beto is right and wrong at the same time. This psycho kid had red flags everywhere and there was no real mechanism in place to close the loop.

• discreteevent 4y ago
  The psycho kid waited until he was 18 and then went and bought an AR because he could. He could not have done that in most other countries. And most other countries also have psycho kids. The only downside of this is that normal kids in other countries cannot buy an AR when they turn 18.
  • bifrost 4y ago
    Thats pretty orthogonal to the issue at hand. There are over 350 million legal gun owners in the US, we're statistically safer than any other country.
    • krapp 4y ago
      >There are over 350 million legal gun owners in the US, we're statistically safer than any other country. You're using the fact that the Constitution defines a right to keep and bear arms for all Americans to imply that all Americans are legal gun owners, which is incorrect. It's actually impossible to know how many legal gun owners there are in the US, because collecting that data is prohibited by federal law, but it's certainly not every American. However, the polls that I've seen estimate gun ownership at between 30% to 45%. And no, US gun owners are not statistically safer than any other country. Other countries with high per capita gun ownership also statistically have a far lower percentage of gun violence than the US.
    • MisterBastahrd 4y ago
      There are barely 350 million people in the US, and most do not own guns.