@RazzaTazz: I must respectfully disagree. When a person gets to the point where he's planning on gunning down dozens of innocent civilians, I don't think the fact that him owning the guns in the first is illegal is going to serve as much of a deterrent. My theory for why so many shootings occur at schools is that any gunman knows that guns are not allowed there, and thus he can be guaranteed to have a huge number of unarmed targets. I've never understood the argument that forcing all law-abiding citizens to give up the right to defend themselves is going to stop criminals and psychopaths from committing violent acts. It might prevent a few spur-of-the-moment crimes of passion, but methodical killers like this guy, who obviously put a lot of planning into this act, are not going to be affected. Drugs are illegal, and how hard are they to get? The bad guys would love for guns to be illegal.
Just to qualify: I am not right-wing, I am not a member of the NRA, and I do not own a firearm, though I have in the past. I'm just someone who believes that if we are going radically alter our laws and our way of life, we need to do so in a way that will have some kind of meaningful effect, not just start outlawing things as a knee-jerk reaction.
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