The police in the United States murder over 500 people a year with guns, and it's an increasing number.

How many people are murdered by American solders?

Why the hell do you trust the Government with guns?

I struggle with this issue as a libertarian as I believe strongly in the rule of the individual and personal responsibility, but these horrible killings truly wound my soul. When I remove the emotion from the equation I understand that removing guns doesn't end the violence. People don't kill because a weapon is available people create weapons to kill, the weapon is merely the tool.

I would like to see more effort put into early detection of mental disorders and stricter laws on who can purchase a firearm,although the latter will have little effect. I also think requiring storing AR at public armory's and shooting ranges, would be a reasonable restriction.

But I keep coming back to mental health and quite frankly parenting. I know relatives that allow their 5 year olds to play violent shooters and it shocks me as a parent. I would never allow a child of any age play these games, we try to justify it by saying it doesn't affect them but I think we are only kidding ourselves. The responsibilities of the parent and frankly the responsibility of the government to allow parents to act against their children they know may need to be institutionalized is very important.

Not off hand, but this article i found real quick seems pretty good.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335168/description/Columbus_arrival_linked_to_carbon_dioxide_drop

^^^They deforested themselves to extinction!? Uh Uh

Our genocide of the buffalo and military grads getting manifest destiny on their asses.. If the natives had guns they wouldnt be nearly extinct. End of discussion

That is a variation on my first point.  Another variation is that this is just a quirky spike recently, and you ignore it, it won't be that relevant.  The thing now is that people won't even stand for this happening again. They feel their safety is threated.  We had recently the Batman shooting, and then a copycat of that, and some others also.

Also, even if ignoring it is the solution, the events recently have caused what is likely a tipping point where sufficient numbers of the body politic is demanding action be done to reduce this.  In this the second amendment is at risk, so anyone who cares about the second amendment needs to come up with solutions to reduce the number of these shootings.

What I listed were arguments around the Libertarian and GOP side.  What you propose isn't connected to either of these options.  What you say may be an appropriate solution, but it isn't in keeping.  Another factor here is that the second amendment says that the citizentry should bear arms and those rights not be restricted, because it is essential to a well run militia.  The idea is to have the citizens be their country's defense, to defend against foreign invaders and also be able to overthrow the government, in the case of a dictatorship.  This "stupid misconception" you speak about is the second amendment.

I think you need to do more research ...

Whether you're dealing with the Mayans or the indigenous people of Easter Island, stone age tribal people (like Native Americans) did not practice sustainable development and lacked the technology to cope with the changing environment that was a result of their actions. Beyond that, with the lack of medicine even the spread of the Flu caused by a growing population could have been very deadly; and any substantial plague could easily wipe out countless tribes.

Certainly, European settlers did not really help the natives but it is likely that they had been in decline long before the Europeans arrived.

Libertarian position is as follows.. you do not put a fireman in every school.. you do however have extinguisher.. non of the other stances make any sense.. you give the teachers. the right to carry concealed weapons. to prevent this from happening again.. (The Teachers as thus protect their students.) All the other stuff is far fetched and makes no logical sense.

I am curious to know why liberals believe banning guns will end shooting sprees or help eliminate gun death rates in inner cities? We know that making something illegal doesn't make it go away ( seriously we all understand this right)?

So if we understand that making it illegal doesn't work why is that the topic of msm and democratic politicians? I wonder if it is because they believe that removing the guns will help remove part of our fascination with them? Any liberally minded people out there that can give me a response I'd like to hear the thought process on the other side of the coin.

You can look it up if you want.  They deforested their country it led to a lot of warming, which lead to a huge drought in which many native american peoples had to abandon a lot of their land.

Then when White people showed up... disease killed something like 90-95% of their remaining population.