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In reply to the discussion: Your fear of MY guns is irrational. None have ever harmed a human or been used in a crime. [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)You want to make a better, more peaceful, world by controlling access to dangerous weapons. The problem is that your solution doesn't work. Dangerous materials are all around you. The Batman killer took months to plan his attack. With determination and ingenuity any obstacle that you may erect can be overcome, and fairly easily. Anybody with the tools of a 1940's era bicycle shop can produce, from scratch, a sub-machine gun. The WWII Sten gun was designed in Britian to be produced that way.
You can buy the ingredients to make explosives at home in any supermarket.
You can buy the ingredients to make poison gas at home in any supermarket.
Completely legally, no questions asked, except for, "How will you pay for this, Sir?" at the checkout counter.
Go to a hardware store and you can buy the tools and materials to make a gun. Guns are not cutting edge technology. The basic design of a revolver goes back to 1835, of semi-autos to the late 1890s.
A few years ago a mass murderer killed 87 people in a nightclub. His weapon? Gasoline and a match. Suppose the Batman killer had decided to use gasoline and a lighter, would you be calling for greater regulation on gasoline?