(August 14, 2019 at 8:57 pm)EgoDeath Wrote:(August 14, 2019 at 8:22 pm)Grandizer Wrote: A couple days ago in Sydney (in fact right near the building where I was working) a crazy guy was out trying to stab people with a big knife. He got one woman injured (that was in a hotel building, I believe) and maybe murdered another woman (if it was indeed him), but otherwise failed to even hurt others.
Imagine now he had a gun instead.
Or... Imagine being a psychopathic criminal who doesn't care about the legality of firearms and buying one on the black market anyway... Woah
Yeah, I'm not going to pretend that gun control is going to be a cure-all, even if you go all the way and make all firearms illegal. That said, it is a fairly easy starting point when trying to fix the problem. There's a shitton of factors that factor into mass murders and I'm not sure anything short of destroying American culture and starting again completely from scratch will totally eliminate it. But gun control is probably the easiest place to start and tackle the problem, and I suspect it may be the only avenue that the law might actually affect.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.