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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
no, but why not eliminate clips bigger than 10 rounds? Why not remove fragmentation bullets from public sale? Why not ban assault rifles? Why not increase the cost of bullets so people don't keep hundreds of rounds in their homes.
This isn't about banning guns. Its about making these mass shootings more difficult.
The idea of some 20 year old kid emptying well over 100 hollow point bullets from a civilian version of an M-16 rifle in a matter of minutes should give people pause.
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If that's your point then I agree, with all of it. I agree, if it's built for efficiently killing people it shouldn't be publicly available.
I still think though that it's the mental health of society that is at the core of the problem, if any of us wanted we could easily make weapons capable of killing large amounts of people but we don't because we don't want to. With $50 any one of us could do what this guy did (or worse), it's not a matter of weaponization.
In the U.S. there is an epidemic of mental health issues, which in my opinion stems from unhealthy lifestyles, social isolation and the overabundance of pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs. Humans are like an equation, you push them enough and they will snap. The mind pushed into isolation starts to bend, if you spend enough time being socially isolated any one will go insane because it's how our brains are hardwired. Look at the common theme with all these shooters, almost always socially isolated. Everyone always demonizes these shooters instantly without realizing their lifestyle created a time bomb, social interaction is like air, humans need it and when someone doesn't get any for a long amount of time they start to lose grip on reality. These people are often massively deluded because their brain isn't functioning properly.
I think it would be far more productive to recognize the cause of the disease (mental health issues) as opposed to dealing with the symptom (gun use). Social isolation and depression are massively stigmatized in society and the loners usually have nowhere to go for help, regulating guns (although philosophically the right thing to do) would be a bandaid on the symptom. (I shouldn't have to say it again, but this is just my opinion).