What would you do about Virginia Tech?

[colonel81]

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banning guns is not the answer. i do not own a gun however i feel banning guns hurts the innocent who uses them properly. if guns were banned and this shooter wanted to get a gun he would still be able to. someone made a comparison similar to drugs how they are illegal but still available. the only thing i would be in favor of is harsher punishments for carrying them illegally and stricter laws similar to the brady bill making them more diffucult to obtain. it wont eliminate the problem but over the course of many years it could lower the number of illegal guns. who knows how many of these incidents have been prevented that went unannounced and hopefully more can be with modifications to the current laws dealing with obtaining guns

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You may not have realised it, but you have argued to the conclusion that banning all guns is good if you carry your argument further to its conclusion.

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i do think that banning them will decrease incidents like these however it wont prevent them. i also feel it unjustly punishes the innocent who have proper intentions for carrying one