Originally Posted by DWB

There is no such thing as real gun control. I honestly don't understand how so many of you refuse to acknowledge the elephant sitting in the room, which is criminals and violent crazy people do not follow the law, ever. People who are gung-ho on killing others obviously throw the concept of law out of the window the moment they decide to go on a killing spree. You can pass 10000000000 gun laws and it doesn't matter to those who are actually going to use them for killing someone. Gun laws penalize honest and responsible citizens, that's it.

You can never legislate your way out of a problem that is created by violent people. NEVER. Won't work. Can't work. But I'll play along and lets say they ban assault weapons totally. OK, pats on the back for everyone. Now what is going to happen when the next crazy uses an existing assault weapon and kills a bunch more kids? A 2nd ban on them? "This time we really mean it." OK, so somehow they magically round them all up and destroy them. Criminals and crazy will then choose the next weapon of choice, which will be a semi-automatic or just a handgun. 7 bullets from a good shot can kill 7 kids. And with a speed loader, you can kill 7 more probably before someone *might* take you down. This is assuming you only have one 7 shot pistol. Ban them too? I could fuck up a small room full of people with a shotgun if I wanted to. Ban them? Good luck with all that.

These whack jobs are going to use whatever tools are at their disposal. So unless they confiscate and destroy every gun in the world (which would be great), not a single law is going to change anything.