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Originally Posted by nickerjones
The shooter was a convicted felon who was in prison who served 18 yrs for beating his 92 year old grandmother to death. Since he was a convicted felon he is not legally allowed to buy or own firearms. The gun argument here would be It's kind of hard to say that gun control laws would stop stuff like this. The law states he cant buy or own guns but he obtains them anyway.
The real question here is how does he get only 18 yrs for cleaving his 92 yr old grandmother in the skull.
I don't know why he wouldn't get life or even the dealth penalty.
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The less guns there are physically available, the more difficult it is for him to get one. So maybe this crime isn't stopped, since he's a convicted felon that has 18 years worth of jail type friends to find a gun from, but if it was an 18 year old kid with a hate on for firemen, maybe it would have been avoided.
It's not logical to take incidents like this and say "see, gun control wouldn't have stopped this crime". It's irrelevant. The point is that in your country, it is so easy and common to get guns, that they're just everywhere, so it's not hard for anyone with a hate on, or a mental illness, to get their hands on one.
Until you guys, as a society, stop buying more guns as a solution to gun violence, you're going to continue to have these incidences at a way higher rate than the rest of the first world. Your culture needs to change. You need to stop carrying guns everywhere, and stop leaving them lying around your houses. You've said that yours are locked away and only used for sport, which is the way it should be. Hopefully your neighbours and friends begin to do the same. Maybe Lanza's mom should have had her guns in a safe with a lock, and the key somewhere her son had no access to.
Or maybe she didn't need to own those guns to begin with. But that's just the Canadian in me saying that.