No, it's BS. Hobbyist rocket builders are having a harder time getting material for their small rockets because of increased regulations on explosives.One can buy any chemicals to build any device of proper inclusion against those they deam inferior, unpatriotic, against their own high values of humanlife (even as they murder them), or for any futuristic imagination that justifies their purchase of WMDs. It is a fact.
Um....sources for those alleged 'facts'? Yea, thought not. Felons have not been able to buy guns for decades, and the GOP did not repeal any gun laws, particularly any that made it 'easier' for felons to get guns.Crime has increased upto 30% in some areas (citys') and more prisons have been built than colleges or schools in general. Why? Because anyone, even a felon has access to a wmd under todays laws of "gun uncontrol".
Sir Moody - if you're trying to argue against my position please use facts, not some hypothetical scenario. I grow tired of gun control advocates making up these hypothetical situations that have no basis in reality. It's silly to think that somehow a student is going to be able to not see the attacking gunman, and will instead attack someone who drew their gun AFTER the shooting had started.
And I think this campus - like most in the US - already has armed police.
I saw a list in Der Speigel of Euro press articles commenting on this, and tought I'd respond to clear some things up for our European friends:
British daily The Independent writes:
Despite the opposition of every police force in the land [not true at all], Congress in 2004 allowed to lapse a 10-year federal ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, a particular favorite of violent criminals [again, not true at all. The weapons banned by this bill accounted for perhaps 1% of all firearms crime. Also, this bill would not have effected this shooting in any way].
The Times of London writes:
The National Rifle Association's (NRA) response is predictable too [a statement of condolence not mentioning gun politics at all, unlike the brady bunch?]. They will point out that events such as this are not carried out by a rifle-wielding member of a weekend militia. There is no doubt that access to rapid-action shotguns makes these events even more destructive but as we have seen with suicide bombers [um...I'll chalk this one up to bad info. But we've had these scary 'rapid action shotguns' for 100+ years, and few sprees use them]Etc, and many other assorted stupid things blaming the NRA, guns, American society.German daily Bild writes:
"Now we will probably begin discussing the overly lax gun laws in the United States. There, buying a machine gun is often easier than getting a driver's license [WTF? Do they do no research? This is completely false].
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