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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
The rules for buy ing guns and the exact controls you mention vary by state. In This latest case there were many laws broken such as 1) the gun was given as a gift which is illegal in SC. 2) the shooter had a felony and thereby is prohibited from owning a gun 3) you cannot conceal carry in SC. 4) you cannot have a gun in a church in SC, and it was not an assault rifle and he did not have any high capacity clips. It was .45 calibre hand gun which was obtained illegally (from Pops), background checks and wait period are mandatory in SC, They have laws in place in to prevent incidents such as this but all were broken. Drugs are a great social experience in what happens when things are banned.
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You have choices to make then.
you can either actually enforce the laws that are in place with severe penalties. I.e. the person that gave the gun to him as a gift be prosecuted severely (and the same with anyone who does it whether a crime was committed with it or not). They don't tend to.
And in the end if you can't follow the rules you "don't get to have nice things".
The US has proven they can't follow the rules or they don't care about enforcing them so only one thing is left. Ban them altogether. And please I don't want to here about people will still buy them. The large majority of gun owners are law abiding citizens and despite whining they will remain so. The black market isn't all of a sudden going to explode with massive volumes of guns (at least no more massive) because Ma and Pa are actively looking for guns. It also puts in an additional obstacle when someone is snapping. You also don't need to ban all guns. You do need to enforce laws.
But you also need to educate. It will take some time but the younger generation is much less tied to guns than their parents. The split is similar to the Democrat-Republican split along age. It'll happen at some point. But there will be many more lives lost unfortunately.
And it's not the same as drugs. Plenty of countries have shown success with gun laws. The reason it isn't the same is it isn't some sort of physical addiction where someone needs to go buy drugs and turns to a life of crime to do so. Drugs are also a personal decision and while someones decision may "hurt" friends and family it isn't going to kill those friends and family when they get too deep into it.