Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Amy Schumer's emotional plea on guns - BBC News" video.

  1. ***** a) You don't know shit about psychological evaluations. It's a complex issue because to discover signs of psychopathy usually one needs three hours and a file with life events to cross reference everything during the interview. The kicker? Most mass shooters aren't even psychopaths. If you don't want to be helped and you have a plan to start a massacre, you're capable of hiding your mental illness from people who know nothing about you. b) I too enjoy getting mad at strawmen. Seriously, stop creating arguments inside your head and pretending to defeat them. It's a gun free zone, which is an invitation to massacres. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be such an obvious target for people looking to cause as much damage as possible. c) Then get 2/3 of the country to agree and stop throwing hypothetical around. It's not the job of the 2ndA to protect the people. The Bill of Rights is meant to protect the people from the government by limiting it's powers and not much more. You're the typical gun elitist. We got a lot of them here in Europe. And because of them, you probably wouldn't qualify for a Glock 19 over here. Sorry, even if you did you probably wouldn't get one because 9mm is considered "war caliber" in some countries and you can't get those.
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  2. *****>"Psychological examinations would at the very least prevent some lunatics from getting a gun" No, it wouldn't. First of all, mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence than commit violence. Be careful when throwing around the word "lunatics". If a mental health professional does not know what they are looking for, they cannot simply "dig up your demons". If someone is visibly unbalanced, they're probably either homeless or being taken care of by relatives. >""Most mass shooters aren't even psychopaths." That's probably the dumbest sentence I've read all day. Congratulations!" How about you read up on psychopathy, rather than use the "colloquial" meaning. >"Fighting fire with fire. Don't see a problem with that. (That was sarcasm. You're an idiot.)" Controlled burns are used to cut off wildfires and explosives are used on oil fires. Fighting fire with fire is something that exists in real life and it's very effective. How am I the idiot? NO, our gun control doesn't work. Many European countries either passed gun control due to tax reasons or as a knee-jerk reaction to the "Years of Lead". Recently, criminals have been making a new "R9-ARMS Corp, USA" which is a pretty good homemade submachine gun with clearly fake markings as the gun officially doesn't exist and is most likely made in the Czech Republic. My mother has worked in some bad parts of town. Criminals leave their guns on their dashboard so people know the gangs are patrolling their turf. The main difference is that the US is attached to Mexico and has a tough policy on drugs. We have decriminalized drugs so while any criminal can get guns, they have little profits in killing.
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  3. *****  I also have to laugh at the fact you told me to sit down for talking about America, when you talk of Germany and Japan like you knew anything about those countries. I also like that you're telling other people about our gun control. We've implemented psychological evaluations. Well, here is a document about how the UK never implemented them: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&id=98795 The PDF claims that there are no resources to put UK gun owners through such a system (now imagine 100 million gun owners), no money, it requires full cooperation of the subject (ie he has to say the truth), the problem of accuracy (once enough people get through, one can train himself to say the "right answers"), etc. When it comes to assessing personality disorders, again the accuracy comes in. Violence is too much of a complex behaviour to be predicted through a checklist of factors.
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