First, let me personally thank you for your service and for your sacrifices so that I can sit at a computer and speak freely. Secondly, let me thank your for putting together such a well thought out and researched post on this subject. Nothing like some pesky facts and data to ruin a narrative based on feelings.

I feel you were spot on on most of your comparisons and I agree with most of your conclusions as well. I would like to add the much needed overhaul and additional funding within the U.S. mental health system. The vast majority of active shooters had documented and usually untreated underlying mental health issues. I am against gun seizures and gun control, but I definitely feel we as a society need to do a much better job with the background check system in place now to ensure the gun laws we have on the books are working they way they were intended.

I have been a cop for 20 years as well as a law enforcement and firearms instructor and I agree banning or seizing guns will not solve the problem with a vast majority of guns being used in criminal situations any more than banning and legislating narcotics have done for the illicit drug trade. The criminal element will never obey the standards and moral compass enacted by society. We will just be handicapping law abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves.

Thanks again for posting a sometimes unpopular stance on this issue.