Luckily, you don't have to assume anything since you can just observe what happens in other countries. I don't know if people choose to believe that the rest of the world doesn't exist or that societies deal with mass school killings on a regular basis everywhere. But that's just not true. I guess in other societies with a lot of social turmoil and unrest people try, but they pretty much always fail, and I'd rather live in a world where mass murderers try and fail than one where they're allowed to do whatever, because "why try and stop them or make it harder".
You aren't making an argument. Please don't say that you KNOW what goes on in other countries like you've lived among murderers in those countries. You are limited to what you read and what our media allows you access to. You're trying to appeal to my emotion on this matter by employing argumentum ad hominem (saying backhandedly that I'm ignorant of what goes on around the globe). Without any detail because its really no ones business but mine, what I've seen people do to each other in the parts of the world that I have been is beyond deplorable...its at the very least as bad as the school shooting and at worst, 5 times as bad by body count alone. Failed attempts defined by lower body counts doesn't = successfully coralling the problem. This would mean that a higher body count = better preparation which is making my point. Where someone wills, there is most certainly a way.
You seem cerebrally pliable by laws that are available in other countries and how vogue their foresightedness seems to be by virtue of a lack of success in the attempted atrocities. The short list of those forward-thinking countries are China, Russia, France, England...et al. With a few exceptions, they are rooted in socialism (for the Brits here on the BBS, please note I said with few exceptions). You may want to check your boat because the sea of poo your floating in is beginning to leak....better start pumping.
Make an argument and we can enjoy an uptempo, lively discussion. Use a basically socialist model for how our citizens RTBA should be controlled (I say controlled for lack of a better word describing the limitations that would be placed on them by drastically changing gun laws) and we will have to move on. I hope that won't be the case because the discussion is timely, necessary and educational. Remember that our society is free and the current constitutional protection is the right for every citizen to bear arms. It doesn't say limiting the capacity or controlling the cyclic rate of those arms. HINT:
- indepth Background checks
- Voluntary gun buybacks
-resale laws that force sellers to register the sale or its a felony (or something)
-Any higher degree of pre-purchase accountability that is supported BY LAW ENFORCEMENT officers...not politicians.
