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Originally Posted by 4X4
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.
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I might agree, but I would argue that without changing the culture the biggest problem with a blanket gun control (which I've stated that I'm in favor of) would actually drive the gun market underground. Gun control wouldn't stop the shipments of AK-47's and Uzi knockoffs from the Philippines.
You would expand the illegal gun market and not contract it with gun control.
Unless the U.S. works to break the gun culture, improve border security and create harsh sentences for gun related violent crime your not going to accomplish what you want to.
Right now one of the biggest problems are the gun shows and buying unregistered guns there. Imagine a lot more of these gun markets happening in a black market environment.