Hopefully heading in the right direction.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

I don't subscribe to the idea that laws targeting crime prevention are very effective.
In some ways, they are counterproductive.

"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws." - Charles-Louis De Secondat Montesquieu

[The Mouth]

1. I will be happy when the 1934 and 1968 gun control acts are declared Unconstitutional

and the CMP is enabled to sell any citizen any surplus rifle or handgun.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Guns are the problem. Period.

Most Americans haven't a clue that in no other country do ordinary citizens go around armed to the teeth, and then randomly start shooting people.

[yagotme]

4. Except where in countries where guns ARE banned, and someone randomly goes around shooting people.

Would seem that it's not the guns, but the individual using them.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. And note how rarely such events occur in countries

that actually ban guns.

Yes, it does always come down to the individual using the gun, but the sheer availability here makes the difference.

[yagotme]

6. If guns are banned, they aren't readily available, right?

So, why are there mass shootings in countries where guns are banned? How about knife attacks? Vehicle attacks? Arson? It's the HUMAN problem, not an item that has no free will or movement. If guns were completely made to disappear off the planet, mass killings would still take place, correct???

[OLDMDDEM]

3. I agree.