(February 23, 2018 at 10:51 am)A Theist Wrote:(February 23, 2018 at 10:41 am)pocaracas Wrote: Given all this, it seems the only viable long term course of action in preventing another similar event is to... make sure that the gun never reaches the person, perhaps?How many illegal guns that the police and local authorities don't know about would you estimate are in the hands of criminals in our cities? How would the anti second amendment proponents go about getting those off the streets?
And, since you can't predict who will end up doing this again, maybe it's not a bad idea to minimize the number of people with access to guns.
In proportion, about as many as you'd find in any other place on Earth. Perhaps even less, because if you can get guns legally, there's no drive to get them illegally.
Please don't muddle the discussion with things that are beyond our control and represent the same background level in gun related death across the whole world.
