obviously. But with new supply (and parts) being hard to obtain, the overall supply would decrease over time.
Young people don't care about guns anyways.
then theres no need to ban them.
but on your banning point, your reponse is so childish it belongs in kindergraden.
Your like the kid that when playing rish starts losing shakes the game board
Look man, I understand you think psychiatrists/psychologists are somehow geniusses but if they were that smart they would be working in actual medicine, not pseudoscience.
I don't smoke crack, I just put more belief in facts than angels and "soft" sciences. Sorry I don't buy into your religion(s).
He bought the shotgun and the AR15 at two retail stores.
That shouldn't be possible.
Just like Loughner bought his gun at WalMart.
I want to see these mass killers spending months to get their weapons, not a quick credit card purchase on weekday morning.
Don't think it would have made a difference here. I don't think he did this in a whim.
Not sure how i feel about gun control, but if killing a bunch of people is what he wanted to do, he's gonna be able to do it. Taking rights away to try and prevent this probably isn't the answer. People do dumb things out of fear, asking for more security and less rights is one of them.
I mean, i think if i really wanted to, i could think of a few ways to kill a bunch of people that didn't involve guns, or even explosives for that matter. Easy.
The problem is finding and preventing these sick people - like someone mentioned. Although i agree he would probably easily pass a test. Best chance for preventing this was having people close to him report him, and have him evaluated along with facts given by family members. Even in this case though I'm guessing the mom didn't think her son would ever come to this, and who would raise questions on their own son, who had a promising future and might have just been going through a dark time. Turning him in would possibly ruin his life (assuming that if she didn't, he would have straightened himself out)
dude was smart, you don't need guns to cause a ton of damage. in fact it's rather ineffective, explosions or bio weapons are better. if he didn't have access to guns, he may have gone and planned something similar to the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo. humans always rush to blame the tools they create for their failures.
That is what I thought. You think its pseudo science.
You are a complete fucking moron. And this is why we still have all these problems. Because people think mental health is pseudo science.
And thats why the FBI, and other federal/state/local agencies employ criminal psychologists/psychiatrists. Nope they cant tell if someone has a mental problem. Nope they can't predict what a person might do. Nope its all junk science.
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Not claiming i know anything for sure, but how can you possibly think that you know something so surely?Nope.
Mental health safeguards are important of course, but you can never craft a 100% safe one. The only thing you can do is to prevent him from obtaining the tools to harm large numbers of people.
You don't know if in a different world where guns weren't so readily available, maybe he wouldn't have been able to make the contacts to obtain these weapons. Or maybe he wouldn't have been able to come up with the money for this stuff (banning a good makes it more expensive).
I see this as a no-brainer. Public safety is enhanced. The only people who are unhappy are those creepy gun nuts who need to find another hobby.
Not claiming i know anything for sure, but how can you possibly think that you know something so surely?
Clearly this isnt a no brainer. Like someone said, he was sick, could have killed people in many different ways. Maybe it stops 1 out of 10 sickos from shooting up a place if they dont have immediate access to guns, who knows, im guessing all it does is dent the inevitable. But i can assure you that does not solve the problem.
Im not claiming to know any answers, but i can tell you that is not one of them.
You've been conditioned to view guns as sacred. That is a shame.
You're speculating and don't know anything.
Could he have found other ways? Maybe. But in many ways those other methods are much riskier and take more effort than what he did.
I've never even fired a gun before...
I do know that if I ever had the need or want to end someones life, having or not having access to a gun isn't going to stop me. Causing mayhem is easy, even more so now a days. Policies that promote freedom and equality are really the only cure.
As usual 1 person goes psycho and it's time to take away firearms from law abiding citizens.
You're speculating and don't know anything.
Could he have found other ways? Maybe. But in many ways those other methods are much riskier and take more effort than what he did.
Stupid. Not true. If he had a knife and stabbed someone in the theatre, that is a tragedy, but the people who are injured are going to be a handful, not 71. Guns are like a crazy multiplier.
Yes. Just like when an automobile has a defect it's recalled.
Not claiming i know anything for sure, but how can you possibly think that you know something so surely?
Clearly this isnt a no brainer. Like someone said, he was sick, could have killed people in many different ways. Maybe it stops 1 out of 10 sickos from shooting up a place if they dont have immediate access to guns, who knows, im guessing all it does is dent the inevitable. But i can assure you that does not solve the problem.
Im not claiming to know any answers, but i can tell you that is not one of them.
Too bad that ole pesky 2nd Amendment will get in your way.
Bombs are easy to make, getting poisonous gas isn't all that hard. Honestly anyone with some real gumption to raise havok doesn't need a gun to do it, just a little knowledge and effort. Seriously, if you think otherwise you live far to sheltered a life. Spending 3+ years working in the oil/energy industry has pretty much convinced me we don't really have a terrorist issue.
But he didn't use a bomb, now did he? How many people bomb public areas compared to people shooting up public areas?