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Posted by: BgBuckinChicken
Posted by: Sir Skill
More guns is not the solution...
Simple solution to killings, especially mass killings, ban semi-automatic pistols, semi-auto rifles, and any assault rifle/smg/combat shotgun.
Allow people to use hunting rifles/ hunting shotguns / magnums to defend themselves. Each of these guns are pretty good for defense, but make pretty bad weapons for going somewhere and killing more than one person and each of these actually have a use outside of firing at a target.
And seriously, no amount of guns/gun training will ever protect you from a person with a gun that catches you offguard...
Besides, I don't understand why people want to fire an assault rifle at a target for a "thrill". Is that "thrill" worth letting someone else have the capability of killing 20+ people by themselves?
People will find ways to kill regardless. In the middle east you see bombs to kill mass amount of people. In columbine they almost set off bombs. The way to stop mass killings is by preventing the media from posting hundreds of articles on it. The problem is that they glorify it in a way by making the killer famous. If they didnt do this then people would have no reason to do it in some situations. Columbine might of still happened, but the Con one probably wouldnt have. Neither would the batman one.
Making a bomb in the U.S., especially one capable of doing a lot of damage is very hard to do without getting caught. The FBI has really cracked down on people attempting to make bombs. The government does watch what people check out from libraries/search on the internet. And most people who want to blow something up, need to learn how to make the bomb first. I see of a lot of sting operations that catch these people on news sites, especially if they are affiliated with terrorists in some way.
And I am not saying people don't find ways to kill others. But certain guns/ especially easily concealed handguns, make killing people way easier. If someone entered a school with a knife, he may kill one or two people. But he could easily be over run by a swarm of people or simply couldn't catch a lot of them... A hunting rifle, needs to be reloaded a lot, and it is a lot easier to take someone down who had a hunting rifle by simply charging them...
Most of the firearm murders in the U.S. are done with handguns, Canada bans handguns and look at their murder rate by firearms.
[Edited on 12.16.2012 11:04 PM PST]