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Originally Posted by Brett Robinson
And I still find Dunblane to be the most hideous mass-murder of school children in history, with the possible exception of the recent Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania. This is not a uniquely American phenomenon.
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Yes but it does happen with alarming regularity in the US. 19 school shootings in the last 10 years I heard.
Dunblane was a catalist for some pretty radical changes in the UK, and as far as I know there hasn't been a school shooting since. Yes I know there have been incidents with knives, but I'm concerned with what is happening in America, and at the moment the weapon of choice for those intent on killing is a gun.
Just throwing your hands in the air and saying 'it's too difficult, so let's do nothing' is not the answer.
Meet the problem head-on. Ban the private ownership of guns except in special circumstances. Hunters can store their guns in secure plces like police stations, collect them when they want to go hunting, and return them when they've finished. Target shooters can store their guns at gun clubs and not at home. Apart from these and maybe a couple of other categories that I can't think of right now, NO other private citizen should be allowed to own a gun.
Banning guns will not stop humans from killing each other, but it will make it a lot more difficult.