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Originally Posted by Table 5
Yep, it's about reduction, not complete elimination.
Banning these type of guns won't stop psychopaths from killing, but logic states that it would at least seriously reduce the amount of damage possible. Chance are he might show up with a handgun or a knife instead.....someone still might get hurt, but it won't be 70 effin people all in a few minutes. Or the guy might try to build a working bomb, which in all likelihood he would fail to do, or would blow up before he had a chance to use it.
The harder you make it to get something, the better the chances are that people will look at other options, or at the very least draw out the process to the point where authorities might catch wind.
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What your talking about is a ban on semi-auto rifles. There are a ton of these rifles in Canada and the United States and very little violence commited with them. That is a stupid idea.
Why not ban violent movies useing your logic? This guy seemed to be living out the role of joker. Has other mentally unstable people been led to violence by a film character? I'm sure there has and it will happen again.
The fact of the matter is that sometimes people lose it mentally. Maybe we can get better at reconizing the warning signs. Maybe we can't. It is pretty risky to be locking people up for what we think they might do.
This guy could have just as easily decide he needed to blow up a hospital or some other building like his hero the Joker. He could have used a shot gun and had less people wounded but, a higher death count.