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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: 2 Killed, 1 Injured by Man Armed with Rifle at Mall Near Portland (20-60 Shots Reported) [View all]Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)should not be dismissed "because the crime rate is down". The crime rate will go up and down based on the proportion of young adult males in the population. Meanwhile we have an extraordinary level of gun violence in this country, even if the overall rates of crime are on a demographic induced downward trend. Mass shootings are routine, and the shooters seem to prefer high capacity magazines.
Claiming that these incidents are too rare to bother doing anything to prevent them is, at this point, ludicrous. We have these events every few months. They terrorize people. They destroy our social fabric. We regulate full auto weapons and other weapons that we have decided should not be generally available. Regulating the equipment of choice for mass murdering gun nuts does not seem to many of us to be an unreasonable thing to do.