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Originally Posted by blackhawk45
No law will ever prevent someone's intent to harm anyone, ever !
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^^^ Quoted for truth.
Since Columbine was mentioned, let's discuss that. What the anti-gun advocates always conveniently overlook is the documented fact that the guns at Columbine were only the fall-back ... i.e. Plan B. The primary plan was bombs. The two perps had planted propane bombs (plural) around the school. The plan was to kill as many people as possible with the bombs, and then shoot survivors as they fled. Mercifully, the kids were lousy bomb makers and the bombs failed to detonate. Experts have opined that if the bombs had detonated, the death toll would have been in the hundreds.
The worst school massacre in the history of the United States was Bath Consolidated School, in 1927. If my memory is correct, 44 were killed and 58 injured. The weapon of choice was ... dynamite. The perp mined the school and then blew it up. Again, the perp wasn't a great bomb maker. The school had two wings, but only one wing blew up, or the casualty count would have been MUCH higher.
There was a case in Germany several years ago of a guy attacking a school using a home-made flamethrower.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_school_massacre
https://www.historyandheadlines.com/...hool-massacre/
Guns are only tools. The problem isn't evil (or any other kind of) guns. The problem is evil people, and the anti-gunners with their hysterical rhetoric are diverting the discussion away from looking at useful solutions by focusing efforts on banning guns rather than treating sick, evil people.
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Once again, History and Headlines describes an incident where a dangerously mentally ill person does not receive the psychiatric attention needed to get better and keep society safe, causing innocent people to suffer and die. Plus, once again we see that killers do not have to have guns to do their terrible work, although of course in this case a gun was used to stop the murderer. Today school safety is a hot topic, fiercely debated. What do you think can be done to keep our schools safe?
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The second article was written in June of 2016. It is now almost four years later, and "they" still haven't admitted that guns aren't the problem.