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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
of course, if we didn't make serious attempts at limiting peoples ability to be responsible for themselves, they just might be more responsible with a gun.
I graduated high school in 1984 and guns were easily more accessible and there were no school massacres back then. why is it so hard for people to believe that school massacres happen because kids KNOW that there victims are going to be unarmed and vulnerable?
how about forcing these 'idiots' to stop being idiots instead of letting them continue their idiotic ways of irresponsibility?
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Similarly, if we stopped trying to stop people committing crimes, then they must just be nice and not offend?
School massacres happen because kids get pissed off, kids realised that they can kill people who've pissed them off with relative impunity, then go and act on that. Your responding to the problem by arming the populance, not fixing it.
Forcing people to stop being idiots? Welcome to the department of education, take a seat and someone will be with you in A-5 minutes B-10 minutes C-25 minutes D-sometime with the next 28 days.
Seriously, all your points may be great on paper, but in reality, they don't work. The problems are weapons and the people who use them. You need to act on both fronts, not just one.