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Originally Posted by sunglow
These kind of shootings are not happening in Europe or Canada where they have gun control!
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Well, yes they are. See the links posted by several members here. And there are not as many as the anti rights crowd would like us to believe. Check out the threads that I posted. They use all kinds of false and misleading information to make us believe that the problem is much bigger than it is.
Additionally, we have more gun control laws in this country than at any time in our history. In fact you could draw a correlation that shows that the more gun control we have, the more gun violence we have. In the 1940s and 50s guns were much more readily available and less regulated but we didn't have these kinds of shootings. As we increase control of guns and made them less available, incidents increased.
As has been pointed out laws don't prevent crimes, they only define crimes. A crime occurs when someone breaks a law.