[Trayderjoe]

So 22 pages on this thread later, the same old same old is regurgitated. What is the problem that is trying to be solved here? School shootings? Ok, if that is the only problem that will stop children from being slaughtered in schools, then you must take away ALL guns, not just semi-automatics. You can't argue that bolt action rifles are ok since children are just as dead when shot with a bolt action rifle. You even get the benefit of ending shootings in major urban areas if no one can have a gun. Or does shooting children/people only matter when it is a mass shooting event?

LET"S DO IT!

Now what? Now what?

Do we wait for the next mass murder of children to take away THAT tool, or should we be proactive? What tool? How about a car? Oh my, cars are not designed to kill, nope can't take them away. Hmmmm....so if evil, or someone with mental issues decides that they can kill as many children by ramming them down with a car in the playground, is that going to be ok? While this did not happen on a playground, a "mass killing" event recently happened using a car. Remember Darrell Brooks? If you don't remember him, he was the person arrested for the Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy (link). How about the suicidal person who decides to load up a car with fertilizer as part of a bomb and decides to take out a school bus?

So go ahead, focus on the tool currently used and take away guns. Do you really think that will stop someone who is bent on murder from finding another way to kill?

Or how about narrowing the focus and finding out WHY and what we can do better to reduce the WHY? More laws aren't the answer if existing laws don't work. WHY don't they work? WHY do the rights of people who need mental help supersede the rights of children to live?

Everyday we do risk analysis. When you get in a car, fly on a plane, EVEN TAKING prescription medicine you assess the risk and either accept it or not. Face it, living REQUIRES risk, it is impossible to eliminate all risk.