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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by petschge on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:43PM (#31511767)
Just a thought: If the constitution prevents things that would work to prevent this problem form reoccuring, maybe the constitution needs fixing. After all it is rather old and contains a whole bunch of other bugs as well.
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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by buscoquadnary on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:15PM (#31512097)
The constitution already has that in account however you need a constitutional amendment that would require 3/4 majority in both houses of Congress to approve that.

However right now trust in the government is so low that even if the constitution was amended many gun owners would probably be unlikely to accept the result.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by LodeOfCode on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:45AM (#31515049)
>require 3/4 majority in both houses of Congress

2/3rds of each house, 3/4ths of the states

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @07:06PM (#31512018)
> contains a whole bunch of other bugs as well.

You might get agreement on that point. You won't get agreement on what the bugs are, though, so fixing them by changing the Constitution is rather difficult.

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