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Originally Posted by Varius
I'm not a gun fan (I prefer medieval weaponry myself as a hobby) but trying to enforce new restrictions on them won't help much if at all. For such public, mass events, the killer will simply turn to items like home-made bombs (easily obtainable supplies, can cause high death tolls in enclosed areas).
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The simple reasoning is that the harder you make objects which cause death to obtain, the harder it will be to carry out such horrendous tragedies. If a psycho stabs someone with a knife, he will never be able to stab and kill 30+ people before getting taken down. I imagine making bombs is not as easy as movies make it seem and experimenting with that shit will either get you put on some watchlist in this day and age or you'll blow yourself up in the process of figuring it out. Especially if you're mentally insane like these people who carry out these crimes are.
Guns on the other hand, you just pull the trigger. From a distance. You don't have to be close to the person you're about to kill. Guns are used by cowards.
And there is absolutely no reason for any civilian to own a semi-automatic weapon other than vanity or insanity.