The cure for mass shootings is an Australian style buy-back!

[JethroBodine]

Wait, I thought the Buy Back was supposed to stop these random acts of violence?

[Gman]

Only humans think that we can be rid of violence. The natural world is shaped and defined by it.

[Skip]

Only humans think that we can be rid of violence. The natural world is shaped and defined by it.

The same people who think plugging a car into a wall makes them carbon neutral.

[Zundfolge]

Only humans think that we can be rid of violence. The natural world is shaped and defined by it.

Sure the rank and file "useful idiots" think they're ridding the world of violence, but the truth is the people pulling the strings of the gun control movement know damn good and well that the world cannot be rid of violence. But when your desire is to put your boot on the neck of the people you need to limit their ability to do violence back to you and THAT is why gun control exists.

[TFOGGER]

Gun control is not about stopping violence. It's not about guns. The people advocating for it are not looking to eliminate violence, they are looking to own a monopoly of violence to implement their agenda.

[Gman]

You guys are preaching to the choir.

[BushMasterBoy]

The cure to mass shooting is genital mutilation followed by live cremation on network television. I know it will never happen, but there really isn't a legal deterrent besides a relatively painless death penalty.

[Zundfolge]

Actually there is no cure for mass shootings. Period.

Mass shootings are "black swan" events that will happen randomly in any society under any form of government and there are no laws, regulations or policies that can stop them from happening because there are ALWAYS going to be broken people no matter how Utopian our society becomes.

Every law, regulation or policy proposed to deal with mass shootings will only cause more harm than good (because even if they magically stopped the handful of deaths from mass shootings, they would result in a massive spike in victims of violent crime by disarming all the would-be victims of violent crime).

The only adjustment that we can make to our daily lives to possibly counter the evil of mass shootings is to make sure that those of us who loosely fall under the category of "good guy" be armed when in public as much as possible.

You guys are preaching to the choir.

Amen.

Now if you'll open your hymnals to page 556 ... remember to sing from your diaphragm.

[Gman]

When the murderer has already planned to not live through an attack, there is no deterrent. Period.

Take away mass "shootings" and you replace them with mass knife/improvised explosive/fire/toxic poison/vehicle/etc. attacks.

[Zundfolge]

Take away mass "shootings" and you replace them with mass knife/improvised explosive/fire/toxic poison/vehicle/etc. attacks.

True. You can kill a lot more people with a gallon of gas and a couple bike locks than with any gun.