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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll

Where was it reported that they had an "arsenal" or a "stockpile"? All the reports I have seen have described two rifles, two handguns and about 1,000 rounds for each. Canada does have those type of records for restricted firearms and levels of purchase/ownership that could trigger an inspection.

I've never proposed less regulations, if my support for sensible regulations that have a genuine impact on public safety have been construed as such, then sorry.

The issue in this whole debate is that the vast majority of people simply do not understand the existing laws. They see the lack of regulations in some US states and draw a conclusion that it must be like that everywhere. It's frustrating when people make claims that 30 seconds of Google would show them are incorrect.

I cannot see any reason why anyone needs several thousand rounds of ammunition. I admittedly was not fully able to pay attention to the press conference while it aired, as I was at work and was distracted with that, and in his words it seemed a more impressive array of weapons had been compiled by the pair.

Regardless of that, I still just am having a harder and harder time understanding why anyone should have access to any weaponry more impressive than a typical hunting rifle. I don't understand the need for even a semi-automatic weapon outside of a warzone or if you're a police officer (and even then, it should be a last resort, not the first choice).

The more shootings happen, the more angry I get at the complete refusal from politicians to attempt to do anything at all to stop it, and the more angry I get at the hand-wringing from NRA supporters at the mention of any kind of gun control, no matter how minor and logical it is.

Meanwhile these same politicians who can't find it in themselves to offer anything other than "thoughts and prayers," meaningless platitudes while eschewing even the most simple changes, they today are attempting to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization who uses their federal funding to provide necessary health services to people who otherwise can't afford it, in the name of being "pro-life."

You'll stop at nothing to prevent abortions, regardless of the consequences, but yet you refuse to do anything to stem this unending swell of gun violence?

I get angry when these things keep happening and nothing changes. I get angry when these same NRA-sponsored politicians are telling me to be terrified of refugees, when I am exponentially more likely to be shot by a US citizen with a legally purchased firearm.

I just have a really hard time living in this country sometimes, and living in gun-happy Southwestern PA makes my frustration even worse, because all of these pro-gun arguments on CP are nothing compared to the absolutely insane rhetoric I hear from the gun-nuts around here. I'm just tired of people acting as if their "right" to own firearms is above and beyond the "right" of others to actually remain living. I'm tired of these people pulling the "well if everyone was armed this wouldn't happen!" BS argument (because just what I want in a critical situation is some redneck with no training firing off his weapon in the general direction of a threat).

The obsession that this country has with firearms borders on the pornographic, and I'm just wondering how many people have to die before anything changes.