The Answer

[Shootsforfun]

I have the solution: We don't need to ban Assault weapons and high cap mags.....We need to ban Criminals, and Stupid this would eliminate all of the problems in America....I say we start a petition.....

 

[Quad]

But if we ban stupid half of the population would be locked up!

 

[Shootsforfun]

Well, maybe.. Or people just have to stop being stupid......

 

[Mackey]

I have the solution: We don't need to ban Assault weapons and high cap mags.....We need to ban Criminals, and Stupid this would eliminate all of the problems in America....I say we start a petition.....

I don't understand why they don't make it illegal to kill people then kill yourself.

 

[eldirector]

We have already banned criminal behavior. Bans simply don't work.

Be careful when banning "stupid". Half of the country has below average intelligence!

 

[PKendall317]

I think we should ban gun free zones and send all the anti-gun people in Congress to a shooting range for a week.

 

[D-Ric902]

If we could just ban crime then all criminal acts would be illegal and never happen because we passed a law against them

 

[PKendall317]

If we could just ban crime then all criminal acts would be illegal and never happen because we passed a law against them

WHY HAVEN'T WE THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE!!! THAT IS THE BEST IDEA I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!

 

[Rafterman]

Still I think a banning or a partial ban on ARs or any assault rifle is feel good politics. So many other guns can cause much devastation if used the wrong manner.
If you have a normal guy that owns ARs and other arms, hunts, plinks and goes to work each day. A law abiding citizen. Then his wife wants a divorce, takes most the money, the kids. After years of stewing he can't take it and goes off. No longer "normal" or sane in a sense. But already has his guns.
How do you prevent that scenarnio??
How do you weed out all the members of society that have the potential to have mental problems or think they will? If they have lots of weapons or not a one.

Problem is, the situation is always changing and people change. You can never ever stop this change good or bad. Sometimes guns are a factor in this change as life goes on and we see what happens.

So they will make their feel good laws and restrictions as before. But right now someone is primed after years of isolation or feeling of revenge for being born. His grandfather has a older semi auto 22 in the closet. Well....you get it.
So now explain how a ban will prevent what will happen.

I don't have the answers, but unfortunately I don't believe they do either.

 

[PKendall317]

Still I think a banning or a partial ban on ARs or any assault rifle is feel good politics. So many other guns can cause much devastation if used the wrong manner.
If you have a normal guy that owns ARs and other arms, hunts, plinks and goes to work each day. A law abiding citizen. Then his wife wants a divorce, takes most the money, the kids. After years of stewing he can't take it and goes off. No longer "normal" or sane in a sense. But already has his guns.
How do you prevent that scenarnio??
How do you weed out all the members of society that have the potential to have mental problems or think they will? If they have lots of weapons or not a one.

Problem is, the situation is always changing and people change. You can never ever stop this change good or bad. Sometimes guns are a factor in this change as life goes on and we see what happens.

So they will make their feel good laws and restrictions as before. But right now someone is primed after years of isolation or feeling of revenge for being born. His grandfather has a older semi auto 22 in the closet. Well....you get it.
So now explain how a ban will prevent what will happen.

I don't have the answers, but unfortunately I don't believe they do either.

There is not a single act of legislation Obama or anyone in Washington D.C. could pass that could do a damn thing to prevent mass shootings. Our society is set up to be reactive not proactive.

 

[jkwparrott]

If you have a normal guy that owns baseball bats and plays baseball and goes to work each day. A law abiding citizen. Then his wife wants a divorce, takes most the money, the kids. After years of stewing he can't take it and goes off. No longer "normal" or sane in a sense. But already has his baseball bats.
How do you prevent that scenario??

Or a knife, or a sharp stick? I don't need a gun to kill someone if I REALLY want to do it.

 

[eldirector]

How do you prevent that scenario??

You arm his wife., her family, her co-workers, and neighbors.

A) He'll think twice about doing anything stupid.
B) He'll think once, and then never again.

 

[PKendall317]

If you have a normal guy that owns baseball bats and plays baseball and goes to work each day. A law abiding citizen. Then his wife wants a divorce, takes most the money, the kids. After years of stewing he can't take it and goes off. No longer "normal" or sane in a sense. But already has his baseball bats.
How do you prevent that scenario??

Or a knife, or a sharp stick? I don't need a gun to kill someone if I REALLY want to do it.

No possible way to stop it if you have a determined lunatic out there.

 

[T/SF34/A]

O.J. didnt use an AR

 

[PKendall317]

O.J. didnt use an AR

And neither did McVeigh or Cho or the guy in Wisconsin. One of these days people need to learn to stop blaming inanimate objects for the acts of a few people.

 

[LarryC]

I 100% believe that most, if not all sociopaths are capable and will kill people if the urge strikes them. This has and will happen, period. The only somewhat effective measure is to arm people that can stop them before they kill many. Israel is the proof, since 1970 all school guards and teachers have been armed - stemming from a group massacre of children in a bus. Since the 1970's no group massacre has occurred - and Israel is and has been a target of terrorists every since. This talk of a gun ban is a knee jerk reaction - allowing the liberals to take political advantage from the massacre - damn them all for doing that.

 

[PKendall317]

I 100% believe that most, if not all sociopaths are capable and will kill people if the urge strikes them. This has and will happen, period. The only somewhat effective measure is to arm people that can stop them before they kill many.

 

[Rafterman]

I agree 100% LarryC!!! The masses out there have an ignorance regarding firearms. They have their affirmation that because of the number of guns out there, that is where the problem stems. Naturally we gun enthusiasts do not agree and know better. We state, more of the good people need to be armed to prevent or limit such tragedies, but they believe that would only increase the overall danger level out there in society. More guns, more killings by their thinking. Their reasons and
The debate can go on forever, but again like other posters here stated, the sociopaths WILL find a way to carry out there intent to kill.

 

[Yellowjeep]

I'm armed always and so is the family. I'm good. You know you can try to convince everyone that the wall was just painted and hang a sign on it WARNING everyone it's wet. But still half of all Americans will still get paint on them after reading the sign. A lot of people don't get it. I just do everything I can to keep paint off my family.