TRIFORCE89
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Why does "gun control" mean taking away weapons? It's restricting the kind of weapon and controlling who can have weapons. You don't need military grade weapons. And any weapon shouldn't be in the hands of the mentally ill. Deadly weapons shouldn't be as simple to get as walking into a Wal-Mart or opening a bank account.I'm disturbed by several things:
- This shooting in general.
- The fact that, despite it depressing me, I can't cry about it.
- How depressing it also is at how predictible the response to this is (i.e. " WE WANT MORE GUN CONTROL)
- The possibility of that letter being real.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm torn on the gun issue. On one hand, there needs to be better restrictions on what type of weapons the average person is allowed to have. On the other hand, the idea of taking weapons away from a population frightens me for some reason, because despite the fact that if you give the right to bear arms to the average person there will always be situations like this, I can't help but feel taking away guns from the population makes them more vulnerable to corrupt governments and criminals who'll find ways to hurt people anyway, obtaining the means legally or not.
In other words, lack of gun restrictions isn't the only problem here. People are a problem as well. At least, people who lack the fundamental understandings of responsibility and the value of treating others with respect.
You can address all of that without striping weapons from a populace. It's called "control" for a reason.