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In reply to the discussion: Why do people think the whole school shooting problem would be solved if guns were taken away? [View all]Zax2me
(2,515 posts)3. Maybe lower body counts, but you are right.
You are not going to erase evil in the world. You can manage around/protect against it - even ban firearms but evil will remain.
And lower body counts aren't for certain. If someone wanted to find a way to mass kill without them, they could.
Explosives. Group attacks. Black market grenades or guns/rob a legal collector.
Most here would flip out if the police state they wish for without private ownership of weapons was introduced in full.
Just imagine such a state with a Repub Presidency, Congress and Senate all at the same time - which is going to happen sooner or later in our cyclical system.
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Why do people think the whole school shooting problem would be solved if guns were taken away? [View all]
musical_soul
Dec 2012
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I don't think we are saying it would be solved but improved if we had good gun control laws.
hrmjustin
Dec 2012
#1
i saw those responses as tongue in cheek replies that the police would be attacked by citizens
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#40
The only Constitutional argument for RKBA is armed resistance against the government.
Loudly
Dec 2012
#2
They think that way because Australia solved their school shooting problem in just that manner.
Nay
Dec 2012
#4
This family could well afford any mental health treatment they wanted. It didn't stop the slaughter
Squinch
Dec 2012
#13
+1. If the family didn't have guns, it wouldn't have been this kind of execution style slaughter nt
riderinthestorm
Dec 2012
#19
Every country in the world has a problem with mental illness. But when those countries
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#18
We should look for rationally-related solutions. If you are one of those who doesn't agree,
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#21
He is the outstanding outlier here and obviously devoted a huge amount of time to his
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#35
It's a strawman argument. No one is saying that all gun problems would be solved.
randome
Dec 2012
#24
Anyone who says that "all gun problems would be solved" when others haven't, is raising a
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#39