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Originally Posted by gargamel
Yes it will. It won't solve all the problems, but it will prevent a lot of these incidents. If I wanted to buy a gun to kill someone or shoot up a school and I couldn't walk into a store and buy one, I'd have no idea where to start. I'd probably do some google searches, post an add on craigslist, and get arrested.
Gang members and drug dealers probably have connections that would give them access to the existing guns even if gun sales were banned, but I doubt that a lot of these mass shooters would be able to.
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This same argument can be made not for banning guns but for requiring tougher background checks to get a gun. In the case of the Tucson shooting, if ol' JLL had been turned down to buy a gun due to his belief in government mind control through grammar, its very doubtful to me that he could have gone down to his neighborhood gang and asked to purchase some illegal guns. That is common sense gun control. But in this case, with the guns purchased by the mom (for her under-21 son? ) it wouldn't have worked.