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Originally Posted by mulligan
IMHO, it's way too late for any ban on any or all guns to be effective. There are too many of them out there to control already. If sales were stopped in the US, our gracious NAFTA partners would send them across our borders.
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That seems like a very realistic assessment. A ban though might get the assault rifles out of the hands of some people with evil intentions like the CT school shooter. He looks like someone who just had a very evil approach of showing his anger and rage at his mother and everything she loved. She would shoot these guns--hers--with him and taught him how to use the guns used in CT's elementary school massacre. Some people are just evil. There are very many men and woman in history who were not mentally ill just rotten to the core. Not sure how they got that way but it seemed that their evil thoughts and intentions were their own and not based on any messed up chemicals streaming through their brains.
It seems unfair to put the onus of this evil on people who are struggling with genuine mental illness problems who never harm anyone. There are millions of these people in the US. Do some research on the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
http://www.nami.org/