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Posted by: Vgnut117
Posted by: xGHOST270x
You say mass shooting are only a recent trend therefore people with guns aren't the problem. But why are mass shootings only a fairly recent trend? And not just in the USA but human history. Think about weaponry in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. How capable were they of committing mass slaughter? How portable were the weapons that could? How accessible?
Mass shootings are a recent trend due to the evolving culture, the lack of mental healthcare, the glorification by the national media transforming cold-hearted murders into anti-heroes, along with the absence of education with weaponry and the morals ( or lack thereof) needed to use them.
I think we all can agree that if someone carries out an attack of such nature, something is wrong with them. The lack of supervision and assistance, and in some cases pure ignorance to the condition to such individuals creates an unstable environment that can drive such a person to do unspeakable things.
The point of banning assault weapons is not to stop one person from killing another. That's going to involve a different solution. It's to prevent people from so easily killing masses of people, something impossible through most of history.
If you wish to prevent people from destroying each other, either nuke the entire world, or put everyone in padded rooms. It's just nor possible. It can be helped,it can be prevented using reasonable and effective methods, but banning a weapon used in less than 0.02% of crime is not the way to go about it.
The Oklahoma City Bombing killed more people than the 8 worst mass shooting in US history combined, while using fertilizer, diesel fuel, and nitro-methane, all of which can be bought easily.
Chemical and biological warfare by themselves killed millions of people in relatively recent history. Saddam Hussein liked chemical weaponry, where as the Native Americans were wiped out with biological attacks over a century ago. The type of weaponry used is irrelevant.
Also, please quit using the term 'assault weapon', for it means nothing. Semi-automatic weapons, as they should be called, have no predisposition to 'killing' over any other weapon type. In fact, as shown by my earlier sources, handguns are used far more and kill many more than semi-auto rifles. Banning something because you fear it on how it looks rather than how it functions and relevant data on actual usage is horrifyingly asinine.