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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
The problem with that theory is Australia didn't solve the problem. They forced their mass murderers to use a different weapon resulting in more mass murder events and more people being killed. It's a hollow victory to suggest, well, gun deaths went down, but knife deaths are way up. Winning! Trading one weapon for another and not reducing the deaths isn't winning.
Every person doesn't have to be armed. Only one person has to be armed and procient to stop a killer. I don't know how many people were in that food court, but Elisha Dicken stopped the killer all by himself before the 911 Operator could say, "state your emergency".
26 of our States now have Constitutional carry. If that was nationwide it would be effective. We're 16 pages into this thread and there is still NO evidence or proof that infringing on American's Right to keep and bear arms will stop mass murder. The reason is plain to see. Law abiding citizens don't kill people. Criminals do. Disarming law abiding citizens will not stop the criminals.
I don't have such a low opinion of our citizens to believe they would be irresponsible with firearms.
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As to the 3rd paragraph.......I have no intention to interfere with American rights to keep and bear arms. I just want them to bear the arms that shoot a little slower like bolt-actions and single shots. Slower actions than semi-auto give Police more time to arrive and give children and adults more time to run or hide. Also, magazine capacities over 5 should not be allowed to be sold any longer and no silencers and bump-stops. Just as a thought experiment......the Constitution did not say bump-stops should be legal.....mere mortals in the gun-greed industry decided that.