Reply #9: increasingly people who want to lawfully, and safely, own guns are allowed to

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It seem that in recent years more and more anti-gun laws have been wiped from the books. I would personally never own a gun, but know that if I want to keep any of my constitutional rights that I have to stand up for ALL constitutional rights, and that includes the 2nd amendment.

While guns can be part of the solution, guns had nothing to do with starting the problems that cause these types of crimes. Instead of working on something as silly as banning guns, it would be far better to work on ending poverty, decreasing feelings of desperation (through sensible social welfare and healthcare), and especially combating mental illness. I think if those steps were taken these few heroes mentioned in the article would have luckily never had to exist. They could have carried their guns and felt an awful lot safer knowing that they never had to use them.