Guns have plenty of good uses, not just killing someone. Normal people use them to hunt and feed their family. Others use them to defend themselves against sicko f*ckers like the one yesterday. If 1 or 2 of the people in that school had been carrying a gun on them, then they could have blasted him in the face, which I would have to assume would be a pretty incapacitating blow. Punishing the normal sane people by not allowing them to have guns if they choose hardly seems right. That is why we have all these messed up laws to begin with. If some numbnuts decides to do something horrible or wrong, punish him. But to say no person should be aloud to have gun because one a**hole did something bad with one seems....well moronic. Now, I'm fully aware that there have been an astronomical number of dipsh*ts that misuse a gun and not just this guy. So if tomorrow, 10 people are killed by a chainsaw....do we ban chainsaws in households? If someone wants to do something bad, they are going to do it. Look at prisons. They don't have weapons accessible to them, so they just fool up t.p and wet and let it dry to make a shiv, or break of a toothbrush or something. Where there is a will.... . I'm not trying to be unsensative or anyng, I feel horrible about what happened, truely horrific situation there. I just can't help to think this kind of thing happens often in other countries and no one seems to be so up roared about it until it happens in their backyard. People kill people. Young, old, black, white, girl, boy. We should ban the people, not their choice of weapon.
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Actually a gun's primary function is to kill... what i have been saying is that if you take that out of the equation for a mass murderer you would make it harder for them to commit violent acts. A chainsaw's primary function is to cut down trees... (in numerous ways)Yes you can kill anybody with anything and no we shouldn't stop producing everything because anything can become a potential weapon in the wrong hands but by taking away the tools which seem to facilitate acts such as yesterday's occurrence we can hope to reduce the # of gun violent incidents. I base my logic on the fact that guns are made to kill. You don't have to hunt with a gun..... Then again i don't believe you should be hunting animals for sport anyway (im not saying you shouldn't eat them for subsistience though).
#1) Guns will never go away, there is to much money in the bussiness. Governments build weapons and sell them to other countries to start wars so that they get richer.
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I agree that its a big business and thats primarily the reason why people won't stop manufacturing either guns or ammunition but thats no excuse for not coming together and trying to stop future tragedies from happening. People like to say that if everyone was armed some1 would step up to the plate to try to shoot the wacko whos gone mad well a well thought out ambush would nullify any attempts for people to defend themselves + imagine if some1 was successful in massacring an NRA rally (god forbid) he/she would just have more access to the victim's guns in that case.