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re: Slain reporter's parents decide that guns are to blame for the crime
Posted on 8/31/15 at 7:55 am to stout
Posted on 8/31/15 at 7:55 am to stout
I'm a gun owner. I've got several guns that are the type that a gun control advocate would say "there's no reason for a person to own that". I can't imagine living in a place that I don't have the freedom to own a gun.
But I'm not blind to the fact that there are some issues. I think the issue is with our society, but the fact that the degenerates of our society are turning to guns is troubling. I don't have an answer and am completely against registering fire arms and/or banning guns. But I think there has to be something we can do to stop some of this senseless death.
First and foremost, I think there needs to be MUCH stricter penalties for committing a crime with a firearm. You rob someone at gunpoint, you don't get out of jail. You murder someone with a gun, you get put in the ground. No more armed robbers walking the streets in a matter of months. We treat guns like they are the problem, but we completely ignore the other obvious societal issues that contribute just as much or more to a majority of these violent crimes.
Mass shooting are a different animal. Those people are crazy. Do guns make it easier, possibly. But we've seen that two guys can kill and injure plenty of people with a pressure cooker. We can't outlaw everything.
But I'm not blind to the fact that there are some issues. I think the issue is with our society, but the fact that the degenerates of our society are turning to guns is troubling. I don't have an answer and am completely against registering fire arms and/or banning guns. But I think there has to be something we can do to stop some of this senseless death.
First and foremost, I think there needs to be MUCH stricter penalties for committing a crime with a firearm. You rob someone at gunpoint, you don't get out of jail. You murder someone with a gun, you get put in the ground. No more armed robbers walking the streets in a matter of months. We treat guns like they are the problem, but we completely ignore the other obvious societal issues that contribute just as much or more to a majority of these violent crimes.
Mass shooting are a different animal. Those people are crazy. Do guns make it easier, possibly. But we've seen that two guys can kill and injure plenty of people with a pressure cooker. We can't outlaw everything.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 7:59 am to KG6
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We can't outlaw everything.
SURE WE CAN!!!
If you outlaw pressure cookers, only outlaws will have pressure cookers...
Or, y'know, they'll just find a substitute...because it's not the method used that is dangerous, it's the will to do it.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 8:01 am to KG6
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