RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 16, 2018 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2018 at 1:52 pm by henryp.)
(February 16, 2018 at 1:06 pm)Shell B Wrote:Ideally, he wouldn't legally be able to get his hand on a pistol. But I'm not sure what sort of profiling would be necessary, and even possible constitutionally speaking.(February 16, 2018 at 12:54 pm)wallym Wrote: If we had all sorts of common sense gun laws including a ban on AR-15's, and this guy killed 7 kids with a handgun instead of 14, what would the discussion be?
How you define common sense. Obviously, with good laws this joker wouldn't have been able to get his hands on a pistol.
(February 16, 2018 at 1:02 pm)notimportant1234 Wrote:(February 16, 2018 at 12:54 pm)wallym Wrote: If we had all sorts of common sense gun laws including a ban on AR-15's, and this guy killed 7 kids with a handgun instead of 14, what would the discussion be?Depends , I don't care for the numbers , from my point of view it should be hard to get a handgun , but seriously a kid bought a semi automatic rifle and went ape shit in a school , wtf ?
Do you care that it was a semi-automatic rifle, and not a handgun? That's where I think gun control advocates come off a bit wonky. Because nobody believes that him killing 8 people with a handgun would be any more acceptable than killing 14 with an AR-15. It's a bit of mitigation, but it doesn't really solve the problem in any way.
