"These people have problems, and if they are not helped, such things will happen again in America, and again in Germany,"
Cases in point:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_re_eu/germany_school_shooting
vs.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2446521,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
Germany has one of the toughest gun control codes in the world, they did in 2002 as well. They lost 16 people in 2002 to a whacko, let's ban whackos. Oh wait, the Germans tried that with the Tiergarten Strasse project, but the world wasn't ready for that.
2007-04-26 08:57:51 · 9 answers · asked by Wolfgang92 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
You cannot prevent these things, unless you have someway to read a persons mind to know what they will do in the future. And I am not certain I would be willing to undergo the requisite testing personally.
You can mitigate the damage however, one armed citizen, motivated, in the right place could have eliminated or stopped the threat very early on in the violence.
Utopia does not exist, get over it, mother government cannot change your diaper forever.
2007-04-26 15:22:27 · answer #1 · answered by rmagedon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No matter how tough and even if you were not allowed to own a gun in the USA, Criminals will always have guns and don't care about gun laws or any other laws( that's what makes them criminals). We need not tougher gun laws we need tougher laws for crimes and tougher sentencing. We also need more lacks gun laws so a law abiding citizen can carry and use a gun against an assailant with no recourse.
2016-05-19 04:26:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a big gun control advocate, but in the case of the Virginia Tech shooting I bet that if the gun shop that sold that nutjob those guns could have cross referenced his mental history they could have denied him access to weapons. I don't think that anyone was at fault in that case except the gunman, but I am firm believer that nutjobs shouldn't be allowed to own guns. I'll support gun ownership as long as the issue exists but I'll also readily support any legislation that mandates a mental history check on someone buying a gun.
It may sound cliche but guns don't kill people, nutbags with guns kill people.
2007-04-26 09:06:28 · answer #3 · answered by quick4_6 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it's the people that do these things. Guns can't fire themselves, it is the people who can not control themselves or their anger that are the problem. It doesn't matter if it is a gun, or a car or an airplane or a knife. Killing is killing no matter how it's done.
2007-04-26 09:03:15 · answer #4 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gun laws only achieve one thing, to take guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens. Criminals still seem to have no problem getting guns.
Just my 2 cents.
2007-04-26 09:12:36 · answer #5 · answered by krupsk 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It wouldn't matter. Criminals will always be able to get guns. Saying that guns kill people is like saying that spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat. More guns, less crime. Guns save more lives than they take.
2007-04-26 10:45:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you cant take away the right to bare arms int in our constitution. all you can do is background checks. its sad but a few people go of the deep end and kill Innocent lives with guns
2007-04-26 09:02:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it depends on (1) what type of gin control laws, (2) if they were enforced, and (3) if these control laws adequately conformed to the spirit of the US Constitution and its second amendment.
passing laws ain't enough; that does not address the underlying problems of responsibility.
2007-04-26 09:02:16 · answer #8 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
people kill people..... with or with out guns
2007-04-26 09:03:01 · answer #9 · answered by zee zee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋