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In reply to the discussion: I'm all for a total ban on semi-automatic guns [View all]Coyote_Tan
(194 posts)However, I can observe human nature.
A horrific event happens and emotional masses scream for something to be done. They don't really care that what is done will not prevent the same event from happening again. It is just enough that something is done and someone has paid a price, even if they were not involved.
It's that emotional fear that keeps folks from accepting reality. In a free society there are rough edges and sometimes terrible things will happen to innocents. The only way to change it is to step away from a free society to a completely regulated one. Until all of our actions and thoughts are completely controlled bad stuff will happen.
It isn't gun specific, it's just a part of human nature.
Personally, I prefer more freedom and to take my chances (statistically very slim) that some of these things will happen than to surrender control to someone else who "knows better."