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Originally Posted by Rochard
You are correct - the problem is not simple and very complicated.
But do you see my point? In order for a fifty year old grandmother to get her driver's license, she has to take a written test, a driving test, and an eye test - then has to get her car registered and insured. That's a lot of hoops to drive through just for basic transportation. But to get a firearm all you have to do is pass a basic background check that ensures you've never been to prison before.... We have to jump through hoops and legal requirements just for basic transportation, yet all we need to do to own a weapon that can kill someone is sign our name on a dotted line?
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I don't disagree with you. I personally don't care if all guns are banned, or if more regulations are in place to make it more difficult to own a gun.
What is most troubling to me is that we have a tendency to look to "that thing" to blame and then stop asking the question "whats going on here". My view is that if someone is going through the trouble of planning to murder as many people as they can, gun registration isn't going to be an obstacle and we've still never answered the question "why are more and more kids planning, attempting to or executing mass murders"