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Originally Posted by Robbie
That's just not true.
Serial killers almost NEVER use a gun. Jeffrey Dahmer didn't. Ted Bundy didn't. The list goes on and on.
A lunatic gets his hands on a gun every once in a while and starts shooting. It's insane, but it's a dangerous world.
I'd like to be able to stop it too. But taking away the rights granted to us as U.S. citizens isn't really the way to do that in my opinion.
As I said earlier...big daddy govt. can't control EVERYTHING (even though they try to).
You simply can not stop a crazed person from doing what these people did. Even if you don't accept that they would have simply used a different method (remember what Timothy McVeigh did in Oklahoma City), you still have to understand that if they REALLY wanted to only use a gun...then they would simply steal one or get one off the black market.
Criminals and homicidal maniacs don't obey the law. And to guys like that, nothing will stop them from doing what they are hell-bent (literally) on doing.
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Robbie, I like and respect your opinion and we share many of those views.
In this case we are talking apples and oranges..
Serial killers, school-mass shooters and terrorists are not classified in one group.
They are three distinct different groups of murderers, for the purpose of this discussion really we need not include serial killers or terrorists.
Terrorists are a big threat but not typically someone with a single gun taking down random victims. Usually like McVeigh they target something big and usually very targeted.
Serial killers are also motivated by certain acts or victim targets, these killers are seriously psycho deranged but they dont have a death wish and do not want to get caught.
Mass shooters (columbine / colorado movie theater and recent school shootings) typically want to go out as a cowboy, they all use firearms (guns)
refer to this list from wiki which clearly shows all these incidents were carried out using firearms, not poison or piano string etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...llers#Americas