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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
Look at the murder rate by handgun in countries where ownership of handguns is prohibited. They are much lower than here in the US.
However, the Supreme Court has reaffirmed that private ownership of handguns is guaranteed by the Constitution, so it is law of the land.
Even we, who do not believe it is right, must respect that right.
Likewise, others who do not believe other Supreme Court decisions, have to respect those decisions also - same sex marriage, ACA, etc.
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Honduras, which does not allow it's citizens to own guns, has the highest homicide rate in the world.
Switzerland which has a very high rate of gun ownership has a very low homicide rate.
We have more gun control laws on the books now than at any time in our history yet the problem of mass shootings has grown over the past fifty years or so. It seems that the more laws we pass the worse the problem has gotten. I'm not claiming cause and effect, but I do believe that all of the laws we have passed in an effort to control this problem have not worked. What makes people think that passing more meaningless laws will work.
In this most recent case, as in many of the cases, took place in a gun free zone. I believe that if this had happened in The Villages, the shooter would have been taken out by one of the many people who choose to arm themselves here. Gun free zones could be renamed "Safe Hunting Area".
This crackpot was only stopped when a police officer with a gun showed up and stopped him. If several of these students or teachers had been armed, I believe that there would have been fewer casualties. In fact if the shooter knew that there were several armed people in that school, he might have been dissuaded from going there.