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Originally Posted by stevie667
Similarly, if we stopped trying to stop people committing crimes, then they must just be nice and not offend?
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you can't stop people from committing crime by making one or two weapons illegal. You prevent future crimes by locking these violent people up for life.
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Originally Posted by stevie667
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.
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It's the responsibility of parents to fix that problem, not the governments. It's also not fixing the problem by arming all the adults, i agree, what it does do is remove a target rich environment for said child to kill as many people with impunity by having someone there able to stop the massacre.
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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.
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stop using the government as a baby sitter and people will either become responsible for themselves or wallow in self defeat and devestation. I assure you, most people will buck up and become responsible.
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Originally Posted by stevie667
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.
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The problem most certainly is the people that use them, not the weapons themselves else every cop out there would be committing crimes also. A weapon is a tool that is neither good nor evil, only an extension of the will using it.