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Originally Posted by Rochard
People use guns to shoot people. Take away the guns and people can't shoot people.
This fucker last night isn't going to take a baseball bat or a knife and kill a dozen people in thirty seconds. They use guns because it takes zero prep time, it's instant, and it's difficult to stop a gunman.
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Would you have preferred he instead brought in one of the bombs he booby-trapped his house with?
People who are fucked in the head will find a way to kill people. If no legal guns, they'll either find them black market or use a different weapon they can easily get, or simply make them.
That's not to say the prevalence of guns here isn't a bad thing - sure it is. But to BLAME the guns for the fucked up people is just stupid. There are 2 main reasons why this stuff happens here:
1. We don't handle mentally ill people all that well here.
2. The culture here is one of violence - it's simply everywhere. Who knows if the guy was maybe making a statement of it by shooting people up in a movie theater during a shooting scene. Sorta like "hey, how about I make this more real for you all?"
I say don't make them ILLEGAL but make them harder to get LEGALLY and work to somehow get the #s down of guns that are sold here. I would feel better with less guns overall but lawful people having most of them vs. much less guns but only crooks having them due to black market. Burglar alarms aren't much of a deterrent - the possibility of getting shot dead by the person you're trying to rob? A bit more of a deterrent.