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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie
If a rule to prevent gun accidents states that guns are to be secured under lock around small children, it is foreseeable that small children to some degree will be prevented from having accidents with those guns.
No. Only if the rule is followed does your conclusion follow. The problem is criminals don't give a hoot what the law is,
that's Why they are criminals. Making laws against gun ownership will only affect those that follow the laws in place already. It won't deter or prevent anyone whose stated goal is to
break the law.
Just think about what you're saying here. Do you genuinely believe that someone intent on murdering people with an assault weapon will be prevented from committing his murders because the law says he has to get a background check? He will simply pass his background check or go to the myriad other sources and obtain a weapon illegally. The vast majority of mass murderers had no prior criminal record that would have prevented their gun ownership. The Newtown kid stole his mother's legally owned gun. Klebold and Harris acquired theirs through a 3rd party. Vegas shooter was a successful businessman with no sign of criminality or mental illness. Aurora shooter was a PhD student and passed a background check to get his guns.
No. The only way to prevent gun violence in this way is to get rid of all access to all guns for everyone, and that's not only ridiculous and dangerous (in the USA) it's physically impossible.
How about instead of writing a dozen or a hundred new laws that have to be enforced and that do nothing for prevention, we actually find and address the issue that is causing people to want to mass murder?
Last edited by DoOrDoNot; 04-04-2018 at 12:19 AM.