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In reply to the discussion: Shoot everyone open carrying for implied threat. [View all]Fla_Democrat
(2,622 posts)or, in the case of Sandy Hook, quite a few lives, it is unreasonable? As pointed out, Adam Lanza wouldn't have been stopped by the laws on the books, since it wasn't his weapons.
If his mother didn't have the weapons, it's possible that it wouldn't have happened. Or, it's possible that he may have obtained them some other way. If a check point had stopped him on the way to the school, it wouldn't have happened. Period.
It's not about saving lives, any more than taking off shoes at an airport gate is about stopping bombings. It's about giving the masses some placebo, so they don't panic.
You're not for rat frelling the 4th amendment, good, neither am I. I'm just not for rat frelling the 2nd, either. But, if one sat down and looked at the matter with a clear mind, not clouded with fear and trepidation, which solution would lead to less violence?