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Mr.Lawson, I thank you for yor reply, appreciate your thinking,and apologise for my previous strident reply ,assuming what i read into it was not your real intent.
JimACE- there's the pity.A band-aid is all we have, yet to not use it as opposed to doing nothing is also lacking. Things have to begin somehow....yes theres amazing killing power in the military, or in the hands of terrorists,available to sickos with money; the idea I am trying to get across is this:does that type of killing power(less than Napalm, more than a Saturday Night special;lets say) need to be in the hands of the general public?( again, if yes for the sake of the Constitution, say so- but dont finesse the results that you get- acceptable carnage) Yes, crime happens and criminals find a way to do crime whichever way they can, but I submit that the number of affected bodies would be less with a shooter with a shotgun,even one souped up to quick fire("flicking a button" as someone said) than one with a tek9....killing power goes up with the sophistication of the weapon, as you might agree.A scenario from the real world, one that I assure you is all to common=
gangbanger#1 has a problem with gangbanger#2. Drives over to off gangbanger#2.gangbanger#2 is playing a pickup football game,public park. the shooting begins,GB#1 hoses the area quickly with a MG,and runs.GB#2 is injured.Bystander age 2 is dead, bystander age 4 is badly injured.
My long-winded point?If GB#1 can only get a shotgun,cant get a MG(due to stricter enforcement,say, for the sake of the scenario)in time to do the deed that day,the 2Y.O.is still alive,and the 4Y.O. maybe not as injured.
Killing power increases killing.
So, blame society and how we raise our kids(I do), blame lax enforcement of existing laws, but accept there would be more victims alive today if there were sensible
restriction/ really and truly applied.
The Government, realize, regulates LOTS that Mr.Citizen can and cannot have. Even here in the free US of A.
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