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- Wrong, you will not use this event to punish law abiding gun owners.
We owe it to society to lock up this new generation of pill popping crazy kids.
Had this nutcase shooter been locked up, none of this would ever happen.
I have to pass multiple background checks to buy my guns, they have never shot at anything more than paper targets, and will NEVER be used to kill innocents. Punishing us solves nothing - Reply to this comment
- Arm school personnel, that is the best way to keep kids safe. Just make sure you advertise that to would be killers, If you come here to kill you will be shot!
The best defense is a good offense! - Reply to this comment
- how about make it illegal to collect guns? have no more than one. if the mother here had secured her collection as would be required (I believe she broke a law here already), children would be alive.
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- Cars food and medicine huh? Because we're reasonable about that?!?! LOL are you F'n kidding me? Yeah ok, lemme just pop an Oxycontin 80, jump in my Supercharged Hummer and haul-ass to the drive-through to pick up a giant sack of deep-fried veal burgers!!!! (all available/legal!!) I'm very much "left wing" oriented, and I still think any of the classic democrat "gun control" laws and rhetoric is USELESS and will do NOTHING to help ANY OF THIS. CT ALREADY HAS EVERY SINGLE "sensible" measure they are discussing....they are just trying to use the CT tragedy as leverage to apply it to the entire nation. The background check stopped his purchase on tuesday, none of our other strict laws did a thing. CT already has a permanent "assault weapons" ban law, it was put into place right when the old ban expired in 2004. So stop pretending like those laws need to be national when they didn't do a thing to help here. Why don't these lawmakers try to think up a solution that would...ACTUALLY HELP SAVE LIVES?!?!
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- It's the knee-jerk reaction. How about instead of banning things, we do a BETTER job of identifying the mentally ill, the depressed, the chemically dependent people and get them BETTER TREATMENT?
Remember what happened with 9/11? All of a sudden we started losing our rights. NDAA, drones that can kill a citizen without a court intervening. New York cops surveilling muslims, without probably cause. Come one knee-jerk crowd, you can do better for the victims of this senseless tragedy.
Nope.
Restricting purchases of guns is NOT the answer.
Focusing on the mental aspect of this is more like what we need. Help people instead of telling them what they can and can't do, or what they can and cannot buy. - Reply to this comment
- Sorry for the double post
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- Guns kill and so do "people"........"WITH" guns
Ban them - Reply to this comment
- As "in the right place" I'm sure your heart is, your medicine and automobiles analogies are off the mark. Abuse of prescription medication is at pandemic levels. There is a thriving illicit trade of prescription narcotic pain killers in parts of our country. As for automobiles - they kill more people each year than all gun-related deaths. We produce automobiles capable of greatly exceeding speed limits. Automobiles are operated by the intoxicated and the unlicensed. All the laws we have to prevent the misuse of drugs and automobiles haven't prevented the misuse of drugs and automobiles. Your attempt to persuade that more gun laws would help through an analogous comparison to laws governing drugs and cars proves one thing - no laws will prevent the misuse of consumer products.
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- As "in the right place" I'm sure your heart is, your medicine and automobiles analogies are off the mark. Abuse of prescription medication is at pandemic levels. There is a thriving illicit trade of prescription narcotic pain killers in parts of our country. As for automobiles - they kill more people each year than all gun-related deaths. We produce automobiles capable of greatly exceeding speed limits. Automobiles are operated by the intoxicated and the unlicensed. All the laws we have to prevent the misuse of drugs and automobiles haven't prevented the misuse of drugs and automobiles. Your attempt to persuade that more gun laws would help through an analogous comparison to laws governing drugs and cars proves one thing - no laws will prevent the misuse of consumer products.
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- As "in the right place" I'm sure your heart is, your medicine and automobiles analogies are off the mark. Abuse of prescription medication is at pandemic levels. There is a thriving illicit trade of prescription narcotic pain killers in parts of our country. As for automobiles - they kill more people each year than all gun-related deaths. We produce automobiles capable of greatly exceeding speed limits. Automobiles are operated by the intoxicated and the unlicensed. All the laws we have to prevent the misuse of drugs and automobiles haven't prevented the misuse of drugs and automobiles. Your attempt to persuade that more gun laws would help through an analogous comparison to laws governing drugs and cars proves one thing - no laws will prevent the misuse of consumer products.
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