(December 23, 2012 at 10:48 am)A Theist Wrote: "massacres will still take place using bolt-action rifles, shotguns and handguns...The public shouldn't have automatic or semiautomatic assault rifles, and taking them away is a step in the right direction, but the entire gun-culture in America needs to be addressed."...Timothy McVeigh murdered 168 people and wounded another 800 people in the Oklahoma City bombing by using a mixture of a common farming fertilizer and racing fuel....there's no gun culture to address...the left looks naively just to more regulation on guns as if that's the cure all to end violence...what needs addressed is what would motivate a person in the first place to commit murder like this, as well as the mental state and the environment impressing an unstable person...this rush to heavily regulating, and or banning guns without addressing the other factors isn't going to solve anything...
Since 100% of mass murders are not done using guns, any attempt to regulate guns won't eliminate 100% of violence and we should therefore do nothing.
It's not naive to look at guns as a major part of the problem when guns are obviously a major part of the problem. The presence of a gun in the home was associated with a nearly fivefold risk of suicide and an almost threefold risk of homicide.
