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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 100% for banning the sale of assault rifles and making it much harder to purchase any weapon, but the reality is this won’t actually prevent these shootings. It just won’t. These mass shootings are planned. These murderers can and will plot and patiently wait to pull it together. Mass shootings have happened in states like CA where it is more difficult to purchase a gun.

Mental healthcare is important, but it won’t be enough either. The parents of the recent TN shooter were on top of their kid’s mental health. Nonetheless…

We need to find a way for people who are truly worried about individuals to flag them so they can’t access guns and any weapons they already have can be taken away. Sadly, even that isn’t foolproof.

And remember: while mass shootings are the most terrifying since anyone could be at the wrong place at the wrong time, most shootings are suicides and individual run of the mill violence. Both tend to involve basic hand guns.

It’s all bad. The genie is out of the bottle. There’s no easy solution. [/quote]

In the short term, it'll prevent the stories we hear about somebody buying a rifle three days ago and triggering a mass murder event. Those shooters without a weapon could still buy or acquire one on the private market, but that's extra effort. In the long term, hopefully the number of usable weapons decreases over time. We won't know for quite a while because this current generation of politicians are simply mass murder enablists and won't do anything (except making weapons easier to acquire and carry in public). Some time down the road, hopefully Gen-Z and later generations will finally fix the problem that a 'well-regulated militia' doesn't mean that everybody can go down to the corner gun store and buy an assault weapon. [/quote]

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