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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
With the Columbine shooters, those guys couldn't legally buy any guns, yet they got them.
I think there may be an argument to gun control decreasing suicide, I haven't looked at the evidence too closely. But Japan, for example, has a much higher suicide rate. And as we know there are all kinds of ways to kill yourself.
Unfortunately there are all kinds of ways to kill people too.
I can't remember the number, but there are something like 100 million guns in circulation in the United States. Even a ban on ownership of guns wouldn't destroy all those guns (I personally wouldn't obey a ban, and neither would a sizeable number of gun owners). Point is, the cat is out of the bag.
To some degree this is like trying to prevent a sucker punch. You can do it, but we aren't prepared to put up with the hassle that is required. They could have metal detectors and x-ray machines in every building in the school. But sadly that wouldn't probably work either, with all the windows in buildings.
You look at other countries that basically almost ban guns, and they have had similar mass shootings.
These are infrequent events, and the ability to prevent them is close to nil.
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Now, I know Mike is a true Texan.
BTW, I agree gun control won't work here and isn't the answer. These things will multiply.