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Originally Posted by PornMD
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.
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I like your perspective on things, sort of a best of both in a way and I agree with that to some extent. Fact is he used a gun(s) if the bomb was so easy why didn't he use that?
Don't know why these things are so common, they really shouldn't be happening. But there needs to be a multiple avenue approach. It isn't just the gun it is the person, it is isn't just the person with the gun it is the access to bullets, it isn't just the person it is the person with the bullets, it isn't just the person but the mind of the person, it isn't just the person but the society which created the mind of the person.
Sorry for the what seems random paragraph of bull, but it is true. If we can pinpoint a true source of something it can be stopped unless the person who finds the source wants to manipulate it.
There is no conspiracy on these issues people, if there was an anti-gun lobbyist would have shot the NRA president by now.