>>If the heart and mind of the culture is sick then the tool
>>doesn't matter. Unhealthy people will always find a tool to
>>cause mass pain and death
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>Even if we say there will always be people that will want to
>do mass amounts of damage, it still makes sense to minimize
>their potential impactt by limiting the availability of
>powerful weapons.
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>I've seen people on my news feed post repeatedly about an
>incident in China 5 years ago where 4 fanatics killed 30
>people and injured another 150 people when they went on a
>stabbing free. The logic goes "SEE?!?! Even if you ban guns
>there could still be events like this!"
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>1 man in Orlando killed 49 people and injured another 50. If
>he had only had knives, or even just a regular handgun, there
>certainly would've been fewer. On the other hand, if there
>were 2 other shooters as armed as he was, there might have
>been 200 dead.
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>The tools matter and part of the reason folks want to restrict
>everyone's access to certain tools (like we already do for
>fully automatic firearms) is because we can't effectively
>screen for obviously sick minds, let alone usually sane folks
>who go off the deep end during periods of high stress and
>pressure and lash out at anyone nearby.


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