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Originally Posted by rubicon
We have not learned from the previous school, mall, movie theatres shootings. And while well intented pundits will narrow their focus to gun control and mis-lead the discussion. The "cause"of this was not guns. The "cause"is a person whose emotional state had been ignored.
What a terrible thing for young kids to have to go through. God hear our prayers,
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So far on this thread, I have only noticed one mention of guns. I just wrote that outlawing guns was not the solution as they would probably still be accessible to criminals as well as to some mentally ill people. The 18th Amendment was a disaster at controlling the abuse of alcohol even if well-intentioned at the beginning. Seemed more like a recipe for corruption as Prohibition developed.
Any over broad approach would probably just be a recipe for abuse of power in government. The 2nd Amendment is there to curb abuse of government.