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Originally Posted by ugotme
Not so!
Most guns are regulated already - note I did not say ALL! The criminal or mentally incompetent does not get a gun legally. Most are stolen.
As I have stated in other posts - go ahead add another 100 - 200 gun laws. do you REALLY think the criminals - repeat CRIMINALS - will obey them?
Use a gun in the commission of a crime - automatic jail time - no ifs, ands or buts.
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With all due respect, you are not addressing my point. Can you name a single mass murderer in recent times who was a CRIMINAL prior to their rampage? These awful events are the best proof of the fact that if powerful weapons are not generally available, fewer unstable, previously anonymous persons will be able to get them.
And to go further, by simple math, if fewer powerful weapons are available, fewer CRIMINALS will have them.
I'm not talking about 'solving' this horrible social problem today, or even soon. I'm talking about taking a major foolproof, beginning step.