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Originally Posted by jayswin
The bolded is very important, ironically it's gun defenders that usually state it in an attempt to minimize the gun aspect of mass shootings. 
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Because even if guns got banned there are still easily accessible weapons. The terrorists in Iraq were able to destroy US military assets with $5 worth of ingredients, billions of dollars spent to combat IEDs that cost nearly nothing to make.
Cut off one head and another will emerge, if the motivation and impetus is not removed the methodologies will if forced to. It's not about minimizing the impact of guns one bit, it's about correctly identifying all of the independent variables.