More guns the way to go? Some thoughs.

[Borodog]

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Well, we should at the very leat make it tougher for people to purchase firearms.

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Banning guns does not make it tougher to purchase them. It only makes it tougher to purchase them for PEOPLE WHO ABIDE BY THE LAW. DUH-UH-HUH-HUH.

Wait, are you really trying to infer that criminals don't purchase guns? uh huh.

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We do know that Cho purchased his firearms. Sure, he could have found them on the black market, but we need to make it tougher to buy them legally first.

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Why? So you can feel better while getting more people killed?

Why? How about responsibility?

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There is no reason at all why a 23 year old student would need a Glock. A hunting rifle? Sure. A glock? Why?

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Whoops. There goes another ironometer. I think there are 29 dead approximately-23 year old Virginia Tech students who could have put a Glock to very, very, very good use.

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Right. Because this happens enough that we should make sure every college student in america is armed.

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Strawman. Allowing people to defend themselves does not equal forceably arming them against their will. Although it worked fantastically in Kennesaw Georgia, where just such an ordinance was put in place and the crime rate dropped by 80% (not that I advocate such a law; I don't).

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yeah, ok. How about making it tougher for that 23 year old to buy period?

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How about you acknowledge that putting legal restrictions on the sale of guns does not actually make them harder to get? Or acknowledge that the vast majority of gun crimes are already committed with illegally obtained firearms? Or that passing laws does not magically suspend the laws of economics? Or that passing a law banning the Moon would not actually make the Moon disappear? How about you acknowledge the fact that states that have enacted concealed carry laws have seen their crime rates plummet (Florida), or that CCP holders are far less likely to commit a gun crime than the average citizen, or that gun crimes by CCP holders are practically non-existent, or that if even a single other student or instructor in that dorm or those classrooms at VT had been armed, there might be dozens of people alive today that are dead instead?

In short, why don't you just acknowledge that your knee-jerk, emotional, uninformed opinion just might be wrong?

Nah.