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In reply to the discussion: Fuck the NRA .... 50 dead. [View all]Martin Eden
(15,602 posts)Obviously, someone who murders 50 people (regardless of where guns are allowed) is breaking the law.
This brings to mind the argument against gun regulations based on the fact that Chicago has some of the strictest regulations but nevertheless a horrible rate of gun violence.
What that argument (I'm not saying it's your argument) misses is that guns are more easily acquired outside the city or just across the border in Indiana at gun shows. As long as we don't have a consistent nationwide set of regulations, guns will continue to proliferate and be fairly easy to obtain by gangbangers or terrorists or nut jobs.
And mass shootings will continue.
There is no quick fix because of the sheer proliferation of guns already in our society, but I don't understand why the vast majority of people don't insist we take measures to slow the bleeding.