04-24-2019, 01:45 PM
(04-24-2019, 12:27 AM)taramarie Wrote:(04-23-2019, 10:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Well, my solution would been to make it illegal for a foreign visitor to purchase a firearm. I don't think there's much we can do about a lone wolf who has an internal desire to murder lots of people unless we're going restrict access anything they could possibly be used to fulfill their desire...
I totally agree on making it illegal for a foreign visitor to purchase firearms. If they had made it illegal here it would have prevented the shooter from purchasing those guns in the first place. Agree on not much we can do about lone wolves who wish to kill a lot of people. The unfortunate problem were the type of guns he was able to get his hands on which made it a lot easier to kill more people at a faster rate...
Let's assume that a full ban on firearms isn't going to happen. If your goal is hunting, then a manual loading weapon should do just fine. Lever, bolt and pump action rifles and shotguns existed long before the semi-automatic ones, and hunters managed to bag their limits. They still can. What those weapons don't do is rapid fire, making them less useful in a mass shooting and easier for the targeted to evade or respond. The same applies to handguns. Here, the limit should be on rapid loading and number of rounds per load, like good old-fashioned revolvers.
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