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These mass shootings are a gun problem in the same sense that drunk driving is an automobile problem.
DWI has been reduced by going after drunk drivers.
Get these psycho loons out of circulation and the shootings will stop.
So who is going to be in charge of rounding up all these loons that you speak of? What test should we use to decide who gets institutionalized and who doesn't?
So who is going to be in charge of rounding up all these loons that you speak of? What test should we use to decide who gets institutionalized and who doesn't?
Maybe you're creating them:
"Warning: Suicidality and Antidepressants See full prescribing information for complete boxed warning.
Increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults taking antidepressants for major depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders. Luvox Tablets are not approved for use in pediatric patients except those with obsessive compulsive disorder (5.1)."
So who is going to be in charge of rounding up all these loons that you speak of? What test should we use to decide who gets institutionalized and who doesn't?
Why bother, we will just keep selling them drugs, hoping they take them and leave them in circulation. Then when they F up and shoot up a movie theater or school we will just scream and cry that it's all the guns fault. Seems to be much easier and makes everyone feel better that way.
"Warning: Suicidality and Antidepressants See full prescribing information for complete boxed warning.
Increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults taking antidepressants for major depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders. Luvox Tablets are not approved for use in pediatric patients except those with obsessive compulsive disorder (5.1)."
Or maybe the federal laws against robbing banks! That's why there are no bank robberies anymore.
Or maybe the federal law against identity theft! Never happens.
And of course the federal immigration laws! Haven't heard of a single illegal since the Feds took control of immigration nationally.
Can you imagine how many bank robberies there would be if "robbery" were as legal as owning a gun?
You never ever completely eliminate crime by making things illegal - that is the insanely basic point that several posters seem not to understand (with their responses about cocaine or some other illogical retort). We will never ever completely eliminate gun crime in the US either, nor should the goal be to eradicate guns completely from society, but to suggest that "laws" don't or can't work at all is simply ridiculous.
For the first 40 years of my life I loved guns and had many.
I used them for hunting animals and when the Government payed me to do it, for killing humans.
For the next 35 years I did not kill or eat animals, and had no Government connections.
I had no guns and no interest in them.
I am not anti-gun, but I don't own any because I have nobody I want to kill right now.
But sometime I might, and even though I still remember how to aim and shoot, I don't think I would use a gun.
I would rather run my target over with my pickup, than take a chance of missing or wounding him.
Can you imagine how many bank robberies there would be if "robbery" were as legal as owning a gun?
You never ever completely eliminate crime by making things illegal - that is the insanely basic point that several posters seem not to understand (with their responses about cocaine or some other illogical retort). We will never ever completely eliminate gun crime in the US either, nor should the goal be to eradicate guns completely from society, but to suggest that "laws" don't or can't work at all is simply ridiculous.
Yes, finally someone on here who understands. New gun laws will not completely eliminate gun related crime. But reducing firearm related homicides from 11,000 people a year to 5,000 or 3,000 would be a massive improvement. America is a first world nation, a nation founded by brilliant, educated, civilized people. Our homicide rate is far to high for a country as great as this. The American people deserve better.
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