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Originally Posted by Wag
I agree, people are the problem, they do the killing, but what weapon is their choice, an assault weapon. How many of these mass killings have been with a Browning Bolt action rifle or Remington 1100? Making assault weapons illegal to buy may just keep one idiot from walking into a gun shop or gun show and purchasing one to carry out another crazy act like CT. Wouldn't that be worth the ban? To me it would be, and I love my guns, but we got to start somewhere. There are a lot of other areas that need addressing also, mental illness and helping those in need would be another, Violence on TV and some of these video games our kids play everyday, another ....
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No it wouldn't be worth it. The next guy would use a semi auto pistol with a 17 round mag, gov't bans it. The next guy uses a single stack 1911, gov't bans it. The next guy uses a revolver, gov't bans it. Then a knife, then a bat, then a branch from a tree........ Are we to cut down all the trees because they are potential weapons? At the end of the day, some people are evil and will find a way to do harm. Death is a part of life, this isn't a Utopian society. If the gov't were to mitigate anything that has or could harm a person, we would all be walking naked because I could strangle someone with my freaking sock.