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Originally Posted by Jazuela
No, it's not the gun. It is the ease of acquiring one by simply driving over the state line, buying one legally there, and bringing it back home.
ANYONE with a fake ID can get a gun at a gun show. No background check required, no proof that you know how to use it, no license necessary.
Firearms are too easy for ANYONE to get. The government needs to provide more accountability to both the buyer and the seller.
Regarding killing people with a car or a truck filled with fertilizer and fuel (to whoever posted that) none of those three things are made exclusively for the purpose of killing anyone (or anything). Fertilizer's function is to help things GROW. Deisel is a fuel that is designed to - fuel things. Cars are designed to get people from point A to point B. Guns are designed to shoot things and people. Semi-automatic rifles are designed to shoot -and- kill lots of people in a short period of time.
That is the reason why guns exist in the first place.
A license to drive a car is what you get after proving you know how to drive the car. A license to own a firearm is what you get after proving you - want to own a firearm.
There needs to be more control, more accountability, more checks and balances. Right now it's just too easy for any crackpot to walk into a gun show, buy a gun, leave, and shoot up a store.
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The point I was making is that you don't need a firearm to kill people. Many objects that weren't designed to use as a weapon have been utilized as a weapon and killed a lot of people. When someone can't get a firearm they will find something else to use to do the crime. Again, WE HAVE A VIOLENCE PROBLEM, eliminating one tool used to commit violence will not stop the violence, another tool will be used. What is so hard to understand about that?