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Originally Posted by Oystein
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Ban handguns countrywide, get rid of the problem all together and make it extremely hard for ANYONE to get a gun except for law enforcement officers.
The notion/argument that if you have a gun to "defend yourself" it will be safer is the biggest crock of shit I hear.
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In a perfect world I would so agree with you. If you could trust the notion that no one had guns, not even the crooks and psychos, I'd be singing the same tune you are.
But especially in the US that isn't the case. There are already millions of guns there, banning them isn't going to make them go away. The only people who will surrender their guns to a ban are the law-abiding people. You'd be disarming all those law-abiding enough to voluntarily turn their guns in, and leaving the crooks armed.
I'm sorry, I don't see that as an option for the USA. Did it work in Australia? I just heard recently that some nutjob there ran through a mall with a knife and stabbed 5 or 6 people before being taken down.
No, personally when I hear about psychos opening fire on innocent people like this, one of my immediate reactions is the having the urge to own and carry a gun for protection. Which brings us back to the original point of this thread... that being IF even one student at Virginia tech had of been carrying a gun.....
Sorry, it's easy to point out how "ridiculous the notion is" etc when you're from a country that doesn't have the kind of social situations the USA does.