2012-07-30, 01:18 PM
Locked Wrote:Much like people will always do drugs, people will always have guns. Restricting gun usage for civilians doesn't harm the "bad guys" because the "bad guys" will always get guns one way or another.
Not even kind of true. You stop putting guns on the streets and start destroying those that remain and tah-dah, guns become a rarity. Sure, gangs and pomegranate will probably still have guns but that's not the kind of person that civilians usually have to deal with, and certainly not the type of person people are worried about. People are far more frightened by nutjobs like this guy, who probably would've had a much, much more difficult time pulling this off with stricter gun laws in place.
Obviously removing guns is not an immediate solution as it would take a decade or longer to fix the terrible situation your country has put itself in but the sooner it starts being worked at the better off you'll be. I don't understand this compulsion for civilians to want to a own a gun in the first place. It doesn't make you safer. More often than not if you pull a gun on someone you're going to escalate the situation.