this is so amazingly painful

[hogey11]

I used to think that too, until someone pointed out that criminals don't obey laws.

There are levels to it tho. I'm not saying ban hunting rifles. I'm saying ban domestic use of powerful assault weapons, or at least regulate them so they are secure. If that means we keep all automatic weaponry in secure lockers on-site at whatever shooting range we claim we use them on, we should do that. If it means that we outlaw the use of automatic weapons so we can better identify those who are outside of the law, then we should do that. This idea that people need to be able to shoot assault rifles to garner large number of facebook likes is ridiculous (what else are they using them for?)

I live in Canada, where we are allowed guns for things like hunting and such, but there are restrictions on assault weapons and tools of war. If I was to try to get one of those type of weapons, I would have to go through the underground. The underground doesn't have a storefront, nor do they do business with any person who comes to them. When trafficking guns is a federal crime with a massive penalty, even the underground wants to know what the purpose and why these weapons are being used as they can be tracked back. Additionally, the cost is head and shoulders due to the black market. I'm thinking that's a lot of hoops to jump through for a mentally unstable kid on all sorts of drugs at once. Just sayin'...

Again, i'm not saying get rid of guns. I'm saying draw a line somewhere. I would personally draw a line at automatic weapons because the damage an assault rifle can cause is many times that what even a handgun can cause. On the same day, there was an attack on 23 children in China by a man with a knife. Horrific, but ultimately, there were no deaths. It's hard to actually kill somebody with a knife unless they bleed out; with a gun I think it gets a little easier. That is more or less my point, but I also should say it's only one part of the problem. Guns don't kill people; people kill people (easier with guns)

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These are the gun used in the attack. Look at their 'features' - 5 bullets per second for the handguns? 30 round magazine for the assault rifle?

Why do domestic citizens need tools like this? What are the justifications? If there are any, i'd be interested to know...

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