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Originally Posted by St. Pats
I agree what is there to think about? Don't add extra stuff into it. Humans having been doing weird crap always and will continue to do so. People are like beyond evil. Only thing that has to be thought about is how to protect the innocent. Would gun laws actually do anything? In a country like the States where there are so many illegal weapons does making it more difficult to have a legal one accomplish anything.
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There are enough stats and studies from tighter guns control states and countries that say yes they do accomplish something. And they can accomplish a lot. Just because the problem is big doesn't mean you throw your hands up and ignore it. You start tackling it now and perhaps 30 years from now when those kids that survived have kids going to grade 1 you have changed things. It won't and can't be magically 100% changed overnight, but you need to start going down the road changing it a percent at a time.
Pretty simple IMO, you ban these types of weapons and have a buy back program. You do that and I think you see that 30% of households with a gun drop significantly AND you make an impact on the type of weapons that are remaining. From anything I've read we aren't talking about illegal guns. illegal guns get used in the "everyday" criminal world (robberies, gang violence etc) and not in these types of crimes. That illegal gun trade will still exist but if you make it so this type of individual has to go that route to find the weapon you are putting a large obstacle in their way. And if you give law enforcement more money and tools to fight the illegal gun trade then even better.
But really the first thing that needs to be done is that americans need to realize that a document written a few hundred years ago can't possibly still be "current". They need to realize that while there are absolutes in the constitution not everything can be viewed as an absolute independent of the reasons they were included.