I don't believe you're familiar with those laws, Nomad, and how they're written. They do vary slightly in the states where they're in effect now, but the pending national legislation prohibits people with specific psychiatric diagnoses, including schizophrenia, delusional disorder, bipolar disorder, chronic dementia, dissociative identity disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, and antisocial personality disorder from obtaining guns. Trust me that for people who can be delusional and violent, even you don't want them to obtain guns. The way the proposed legislation stands, certain other diagnoses or histories would require a waiting period before someone could obtain a gun. ADD and plain old depression aren't on those lists. That would restrict too many people.

You attributed the cause to the lack of prevention, which isn't a valid argument. The VTech massacre happened because a crazy young man with a lifetime of psychiatric problems slipped through the cracks and wasn't prohibited from purchasing automatic weapons. You can read all about this in the conclusions of the investigation committee that came out two weeks ago.