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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Some won't stop. Lots will. These kids murdering their classmates can't function in a high school setting without snapping and going on a rampage. These are not kids who handle adversity well. You put a few obstacles in their way, it's going to stop them.
Say only 100 people die per year in these massacres instead of 250. Is that not a monumental gain? People die every day, but there's no excuse to make mass murder as easy as possible.
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I get what you're saying, but I would really believe that any downturn in the stats would be temporary at best, and you would get a large uptick eventually as an underground market is established. And it will lead to worse weapons becoming available.
Just banning the sale of semi-automatic weapons is not going to solve the problem. I want the banning to happen, but honestly its one step in many and I doubt American's will have the stomach forth the costs of it.
Its America, its a gun culture, and underground market will be a huge money maker for the cartels if they choose to do it. What stops that from happening full force is that its fairly easy to buy these weapons in a legal market.
As a side note, I was in Toronto this week on business and a lot of talk is around not the US mass shootings but the gun violence in Toronto right now including the 17 shootings over the weekend a couple of weeks ago.