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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I watched the POTUS speech last night in response to the campus shooting in Oregon.
He thinks that changing laws would lesson or stop this kind of awful event.
I don't.
I think only good people would comply. There are enough guns in circulation that bad people would get them and use them for their nefarious causes. AND that people who need to protect themselves could not protect themselves. If I were the person who had to carry cash to the bank for a business, I would want to have a gun. If I lived in a high crime area, I would want to have a gun.
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From the proposals to change the gun laws that I saw, they would not keep any good person from purchasing a gun. However, the NRA would make some to believe that. Honestly, I don't know what it will take to get gun laws to change so at the least background checks are taken and elimination of gun shows selling guns without any background check.
Would this eliminate all bad guys from buying a gun on the "street". No, but it likely would save some lives. It would be a start toward perhaps getting assault weapons eliminated from being sold to someone with a documented mental problem.