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Well, apparently HE felt he could kill more people with guns than with some home made bombs so maybe he can explain it to you how it's easier to shoot 70-odd people than it is to go into a theater and throw home made bombs at them

ITT: Gbaji admits that gun laws banning automatic weapons work to stop massacres involving automatic weapons.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2012 4:11pm by Jophiel

Better ban all of the guns then!

Kinda the point. Unless one is advocating outright repeal of the 2nd amendment, simply banning sets of guns isn't going to prevent this sort of massacre. It's at best a placebo. And while I suppose some people are ok with that, I think it's a silly waste of time.

And in this particular case (unless some new information arises), there's pretty much zero legal restrictions we could place (again, sort of repealing the second amendment) on purchasing rules which would have made a difference. This guy had zero legal problems in his past. I'm not sure how you could place any tighter restrictions on purchases which could have stopped him from getting his hands on guns while still allowing anyone else to. Which brings us right back to "unless you can repeal the 2nd amendment, you can't do anything" bit.

We're left with passing random and useless legislation to make people feel better about themselves, aren't we?

People can still buy potato guns.

Unlike Switzerland, though, the USA does not have a militia. I don't see how the second amendment is still relevant?

Very unAmerican of you, not endorsing Capitalism.

I still have to buy the PVC and accessories from the hardware store. Plus all that hairspray...

That would make it very hard to see the TV...

*cough* An AR-15 is a long rifle.



Then fight to repeal the 2nd amendment Joph. It's your call. Write your congressman or something. I'm just saying that unless one is willing to go that route, most of the silly attempts at gun control will do nothing except make ignorant people think they're accomplishing something.

Nope. Perhaps you meant a long gun?

Oh, and take some cough drops. Otherwise it sounds as though you were trying to be smug and you just look stupider for it.


Or, you know, some sort of middle ground in there. But you wouldn't be you if you understood anything beyond extremes and platitudes.

Didn't you know, Gbaji is an expert in guns. Well, ok, not an expert, because they suck, but someone who can talk about guns with experts and have them be super impressed with his made up knowledge.

In all seriousness, I thought he legitimately meant "long rifle" in a "Since the dawn of this nation, we've had this Amendment" sort of way since, you know, that's the sort of gun used in the Revolution (among others). I didn't know that he was just trying to throw around random gun terms he's picked up along the way without understanding what they meant.