10-19-2017, 05:24 PM
(10-19-2017, 03:16 PM)David Horn Wrote: I planned to leave this alone, but yours is the second post in a row to make the futility argument. Really? We've had a chance to limit the number of guns in circulation for decades, but ignored the problem until it's gotten us here. We can continue to ignore the problem until something more dramatic than Las Vegas occurs and the public says, ENOUGH! It just makes it a bigger problem, not a non-issue. Would you be OK with an epidemic of any other kind? Eventually, it will become a pandemic ... potentially a nation-ending one.If you want to limit the number of guns in circulation, you crack down on illegal gun sales and destroy the guns that are seized. The cartels/gangs aren't buying their guns from Cabela's or Joe Blows Gun Shop located in Indiana. It ain't like the old days. You haven't bought a gun. You have no clue about the process of buying a gun these days. I can buy a gun. I can buy any gun. I can get a license to carry a hand gun. Why? I've already passed a back ground check several times.
America said ENOUGH! to terrorism, but that didn't stop it from happening here or stop Muslims from coming here. Think terrorism, think about your view of terrorism vs mine and compare your view of gun violence to mine. Similar? Similar but opposite views pertaining to different issues. I own a gun. I know how to use a gun. I'm pretty good with a gun. A spree shooter in my area would find himself matched up against a gun owner who has the skills to kill them or a formidable presence who could draw their attention away from shooting up a neighborhood and keep them occupied until the police arrive. Now, if you want to continue blaming guns for violence, continue attacking people like me for owning them while ignoring the people who are the problem, that's fine.