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Originally Posted by nfotiu
So one high school student bought an AR to shoot up his school, ever. You tried to make a point that high school students snapping and having access to assault rifles is a big problem in the US and if you made it harder for them to acquire one, it would save hundreds of lives per year. In actuality, you might have prevented one such instance in the last 30 years if the law was effective.
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Parkland was an AR, Newtown was a Bushmaster XM15 E2S. Google those guns and look at them side by side, and see if you can tell which is which. A reasonable society would look at the corpses of 20 pre-teens and take that as reason enough to stop selling these products. I don't know why you would argue that preventing Newtown or Parkland, or the next one, or the next one, is not worth the effort.
This is the mass shooting thread. Not the school shooting thread. Mass shootings are a direct result of widespread access to weapons that should be much more restricted. It may be a difficult road to hoe, but that's the solution. You have to control who gets their hands on these weapons, or you end up with modern day America.
It doesn't happen here. It's not to say it can't, but it doesn't. And if/when a slaughter takes place in Canada using an AR 15 or similar weapon, those weapons will be banned en masse overnight and there will not be a struggle.
It's time to stop treating the talking points of a Russian-funded white nationalists as actual fact. Every piece of evidence indicates a huge problem that is having an extremely negative impact on the populace. As the always enraging Onion headline says, "'No Way to Prevent This' Says Only Nation where this Regularly Happens".