In Wake of Orlando Shooting, Obama, Others Call for Stricter Gun Laws — WSJ
Maybe we should have stricter laws against killing people. Oh we have strict laws against killing people?
Having laws against things doesn’t stop them from happening. How are stricter gun laws going to stop mass shootings? How is that supposed to work? I was planning to shoot 100 people but I didn’t want to do it with an illegally obtained gun. Because I might get in trouble with the law. It doesn’t make any sense.
Making guns harder to buy or illegal or making certain kinds of guns illegal doesn’t stop anyone from getting them. We have an “assault weapons” ban here in California. The rifles used by the San Bernardino shooters to kill or seriously injure 36 people are illegal in our state. If you’re going to shoot 36 people, why do you care about gun laws?
The Orlando shooter had been the subject of two FBI investigations. How much stricter can you be with people? Purchasing a gun requires three FBI investigations?
I’d like to see fewer mass shootings but I don’t understand how “gun control” is supposed to work. What am I missing?
Gun control in the United States is a case of locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen.
It also has a lot in common with Prohibition and the failed war on drugs.