Dear Sarah

I wrote a reply to a post on:

Trying To Understand Our Government

I completely agree with you, how could people even think that the people of America would give up their Second Amendment Rights? I wrote an article similar to yours about the need for more counseling, and mental health awareness in schools. Students need a counselor, adviser, or therapist. It would be extremely hard to get rid of the Second Amendment, the best we could do in the mean time is reform it, and as you said, "put a few steps in place before you're able to purchase a weapon like a psych evaluation and maybe provide a legitimate reason of purchase." I'm pretty sure though if the shooter really wanted a gun they could just purchase it illegally though. Mental illness is very serious and is almost never diagnosed in school time. We should increase the age at which you can buy these weapons, also we should have a database for these people who fail a psych evaluation to never in their life be able to purchase a firearm.