I am merely rebutting your "sad day" statement. That is not a sad day. What happened the other day is a very sad day. This kid did not have the means to acquire anything more than a knife at that point, how can you assume that he could have found another gun in that small town? He tried to buy one but was turned away.
I live in Canada. I am pretty free. I am not sure what your definition of free or protected is. Mine doesn't involve having to stock my house with AR15s and several hand guns.
I am not upset, but people are assuming that I want all guns removed, I don't nor am I any authority on it. But clearly you aren't offering any help in where this should go but saying you'll keep your gun where you want it. So when your house gets broken in to and your gun is stolen and used in an offence like this and is added to the pile of illegal weapons on the street I hope you'll think back to this post and say "Gee I sure wish I was a more responsible gun owner!".
Don't fool yourself, it'll happen. And no I don't have to rewrite the constitution. I can make ammo prohibitively expensive. Have all the guns you want, but that ammo is going to cost you an arm and a leg and also require you to submit a background check.
The kid blew up for whatever reason. If those guns weren't in that house that day, those 20 kids would still be alive today. Not to say that somewhere down the road he wouldn't have found something else, but 20 kids would be celebrating Christmas with their parents next week.
And the simple volume of guns available in the US makes that extremely easy, doesn't it? "Would you like a hollow point with that AR15 sir?"
Again, no one is taking away any rights. You do not need a semiauto rifle with 100 round clip to protect yourself. And I am all for telling a citizen where and how your guns should be kept. Responsible owners do this already.
You are mistaken on a number of levels here. Have to do this one by one...
1) If there were no guns or knives, he would've found something else. He wanted to kill.
2) You live in Canada and let us live (especially on a state level) how we choose down here.
3) You haven't read everything I've posted on this. Wait wait wait...so now I have to work under the assumption that my house WILL be broken into and the intruders will be looking for my gun and then FIND it and THEN sell it on the streets? Quite a stretch there, Jasper. Give me a break.
4) No idea what you're talking about. Lawmakers would have to re-write the Constitution and even if they do restrict certain weapons, there is no legal authority for them to legislate the price of a bullet. Where on God's green earth are you coming up with this? Not gonna happen. Background check me all day, captain. I'm cleaner than a judge.
5) You still aren't following this logic. He didn't "blow up", grab guns, and go to the school. It was a designed, formulated plan. He destroyed the hardware on his PC before he left home. He knew the school was defenseless. And for the 74th time today, if there were no guns he would've found another tool for killing. A half hour in a Home Depot and $60.00 woud've gotten him the materials to kill more people if he so wished. It's like you think a psychotic murderer would just sit around all day, shrug his shoulders and say, "well, shoot. no guns, no plan for me to kill people today." You're living in a fantasy world.
6) What you "think" you should be able to tell citizens and what you define as "responsible" are irrelevant. 1) You're in Canada and we don't care. 2) Our government is set up to protect citizens from each other, not protecting citizens from themselves. Just as our beaurocrats don't tell us what to eat, when to poop, and when to shower, they don't tell us law-abiding citizens where to keep our guns. Most of us use common sense. Then there's the gangs...
