Just make guns illegal. That'll stop those criminals.
Making guns illegal will make all gun dealings go underground, and be controlled
by criminals instead of by a business/government.
That would lead to an increase in gun violence, because of the nature of criminal organizations. It would also create an unarmed populace that couldn't defend itself from said organizations, and police agencies are not equipped to handle an increase like that, so they wouldn't be much good against them. Most criminal organizations are far better equipped than most police agencies, so to stop the violence the military would likely have to be used in higher population areas.
It also opens the can of worms of having an unarmed populace...
One more thing, that shooter, regardless of the legality of weapons, would have gotten his hands on a weapon. A person who is planning to shoot up a location doesn't care what the law says, they don't even expect to leave the location alive. They know that, and they've reached a point of not caring.
The issue isn't gun control at all. The issue is, why did this man reach that point? Why did nobody intervene earlier? The issue is with the mans mental state and how it was allowed to reach that point, not what weapons he may or may not have had.
He also had explosives on him, which are something one doesn't purchase at a gun shop.... which goes to show how much planning he put into this. He took the time to procure illegal explosives, or make home-made ones to set off. If he could do either of those, you can bet he would have easily been able to procure an illegal firearm as well. It's not like it's hard....
In an ideal world, weapons would be pointless, but we don't exactly live in a world that is close to "ideal". :?
I'll stop here... I don't want to start an argument over gun control because it's not the point. This was a tragedy, and I hope the families are able to cope with what happened.
