Or you were deemed too untrustworthy by a law enforcement screening when you applied for a high powered, semi-auto rifle, so you were denied. And law enforcement has been able to crack down on private sales of guns so they stop ending up in a black market, so you couldn't find one. Therefore no one was murdered in a mass killing. This could happen with sensible laws.
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10 killed in Buffalo, NY store shooting!
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Subduction Zone
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It could. But I do not think that it would have made a difference in this case.
Police have plenty of support, but they can't predict who in society is unstable and owns guns. That should be law enforcement screening people before they buy guns.
I would love if the US regulated firearms anywhere close to the way that they regulate cars.
BTW: you do realize that this person shot up a supermarket, right? Do you really see people going on a killing spree in a supermarket with their car as something that has a reasonable chance of happening?
And I think supporting the police would be establishing gun access laws so they don't have to show up at mass murder crime scenes like this. Innocent people minding their own business just mowed down because guns are easy to get.
Father Heathen
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Do you think the current restrictions on belt-fed, fully automatic guns violate the 2nd amendment? What about rocket propelled grenades? Those are arms, so shouldn't you have a right to them? Why or why not?
Some of them come from the military.
1,900 U.S. Military Firearms Were Lost Or Stolen Over The Last Decade [Infographic] (forbes.com)
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
I was so disappointed with the lack of RPG's on my last birthday. Don't tell @Dan From Smithville but I wanted to go rabbit hunting.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
That counts both inside and outside of the country, with a lot likely being overseas. 200 a year. That is a drop in the bucket.
could I have a source about this person? Or are we speculating at this point.
Actually, New York as a "depend the police" support.
You do know that someone ran a van through a parade, right?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I have no idea what you mean.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'm still waiting for assault vehicle mandates to surface.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
I am speculating just as you are. From my experience, in the news stories I have checked out even if mass shooters got the gun illegally they did not have to try to hard. Locally one kid just took his father's gun. Kyle Rittenhouse had a friend make a straw purchase for him. Neither of these were large magazine events, but in both multiple people were shot. They would both have been avoided with stronger gun control laws.
So we members of society should just accept our losses to disturbed people? It could be people you love next, and you just have a passive attitude about it?
Or we as a modern society can make mental health access to disturbed people more readily available.
The border between Canada and the US is more open than your border with Mexico.
St. Catharines, Ontario is near Buffalo, about as far west of the Niagara River as Buffalo is east. The median household income in both cities is well below the national average.
The homicide rate in St. Catharines is 1.0 per year per 100,000. The homicide rate in Buffalo is 24.0 per year per 100,000.
How do you explain this major difference?
Personally, I think it comes down mostly to stricter firearm laws on our side of the border; apparently you disagree... so what do you think is causing the murder rate in Buffalo to be so much higher than this other nearby city?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Why not? It will be fully flash fried by the time it hits the ground!