Why keep around implements that serve no purpose but to kill?
There is something really wrong in a country when a mentally ill man can shoot a congresswoman in the face, and gun control legislation is stopped before it can reach the floor of the House of Representatives.
Thanks once again for breaking down a difficult topic like this.
I didn't want to start a political discussion here, as this is a subject near and dear to my heart which I tend to wax eloquent over. :)
But I did want to mention one common sense answer to that question - what the guy did was already illegal. He is being charged under those existing laws. In fact, the rally was in a "Gun Free School Zone", where gun possession is illegal. It really underscores what affect legislation has on psychopaths: namely, none at all. MORE legislation wouldn't have changed this outcome.
Despite high-profile incidents like this, violent crime is actually going down in the US, and has been for years.
Anyway, I'll leave it there, so that I'm not journal hijacking. :) Not trying to step on toes in someone else's house, as it were.
Why keep around implements that serve no purpose but to kill?
There is something really wrong in a country when a mentally ill man can shoot a congresswoman in the face, and gun control legislation is stopped before it can reach the floor of the House of Representatives.
Thanks once again for breaking down a difficult topic like this.
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But I did want to mention one common sense answer to that question - what the guy did was already illegal. He is being charged under those existing laws. In fact, the rally was in a "Gun Free School Zone", where gun possession is illegal. It really underscores what affect legislation has on psychopaths: namely, none at all. MORE legislation wouldn't have changed this outcome.
Despite high-profile incidents like this, violent crime is actually going down in the US, and has been for years.
Anyway, I'll leave it there, so that I'm not journal hijacking. :) Not trying to step on toes in someone else's house, as it were.
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Aaaaand that's where I'm going to leave it.
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