I’d love to know what his blood lead level was. Like the monster who shot up Sandy Hook, this guy was a mentally challenged individual with very obvious behavioral and social interaction issues, and he obviously had over exposure to lead fumes and lead residue just by virtue of being a gun lover. And yet, collectively, we let him have guns.

IMO, his father has some culpability. As do the gun sellers, the gun makers, the ammo sellers, the ammo makers, the NRA, our mental health system, and our culture of violence in general. However, any attempt to work to resolve this problem will be thwarted time and time again by the people who get high sniffing leaded gun smoke fumes. I wonder what their blood lead levels are?

This is one case where it is easy to surmise that someone used a gun to try to put a bandaid on his wounded ego. Of all the stupid uses for guns, that has got to be one of the stupidest, and yet how many gun lovers have guns just for that reason?

Wow. This post above by Steve P could be read in a pretty dry cool manner.
But I don’t see it like that.
It’s an very impressive passionate heartfelt plea for a break in the cycle.
Nice writing.

” Ted Cruz ” Now there’s a stupid fucking idiot. He got more than potential lead issues that bloke.

Humans do not appear to have a good built in lead de-toxicification mechanism. And lead is very toxic to humans. Thus, messing around with guns is a really really questionable activity for an intelligent person.

BBD. There is a miscommunication apparent.
I agree strongly with your entire post ( especially about toerag Banks )except
your initial disagreement with the commenter liberal.
I believe commenter Steve P phrased something really badly.
I damn well fucking know I don’t want to live in a system where an accused MUST provide proof of anything.
Yes a gun owner needs a gun safe and other things to satisfy licence requirements. No question from me about that. Regularly inspected too.
But if a gun is stolen somehow, and the gunowner charged with something, the onus is not and cannot be on the accused to provide evidence.

It’s a miscommunication is all.

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-017-0246-0

“Nearly all BLL measurements [Blood Lead Level of shooters] compiled in the reviewed studies exceed the current reference level of 5 ?g/dL recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (CDC/NIOSH). Thus firing ranges, regardless of type and user classification, currently constitute a significant and unmanaged public health problem. Prevention includes clothing changed after shooting, behavioural modifications such as banning of smoking and eating at firing ranges, improved ventilation systems and oversight of indoor ranges, and development of airflow systems at outdoor ranges. Eliminating lead dust risk at firing ranges requires primary prevention and using lead-free primers and lead-free bullets.”

It is not simply conjecture, BillyR. It is actually fact. You can’t inhale the smoke, fumes, dust etc. from shooting and not get contaminated. You can’t eat a sandwich with your shooting hands without ingesting a little bit of that oh so heavy lead. That sweet smell of gunsmoke we all love so much? It is actually the smell of your brain dying. The more you shoot, the more you ingest. Does Ted Nugent exhibit the behavior of an intelligent, civilized man? He was a championship skeet shooter. And now, he acts like a deranged idiot, periodically threatening people and getting visited by the Secret Service. And eating machine gun bacon is particularly stupid. Really, really stupid. But it does explain the deteriorating behavior and increasingly unintelligent actions of Senator Ted Cruz. I bet Sarah Palin loves her some machine gun bacon!

Russia loves it when Americans shoot more and more and more! Eh BillyR?

In a fascistic country, yes.

What utter rubbish. Guns are dangerous therefore when not in use they should be kept in a secure, locked cabinet specifically designed for weapons storage. Ammunition should be stored separately. This *is the law in the UK and last I checked the fascists were still a minority. A growing minority, but a minority all the same. We remain – just about – a parliamentary democracy, despite the best efforts of Arron fucking Banks and his chums to undermine it.

“I contend that it is reasonable to suspect that all shooters have some level of lead contamination, from trace to massive, and that the effects of this contamination will be somewhat variable, and that a certain number of the crazed shooters we see each year were brought over the edge of impulsive stupidity by lead poisoning.”

SIMPLY CONJECTURE. :<(