>>1027 >Nonetheless,I see big problems especially on the children and schools. If a children were to be against the world and end so desperate that he wants everybody to pay for it,bam 4 kills or so overnight. Also,it would prevent someone from commiting suicide with a gun anyone who has depression or see things too over the edge(see /r9k/'s one with a KSG) and maybe,kills his family before the person itself. If everybody didn't have one,nobody(in theory) should have fear of no one else,you don't have a gun but the other one doesn't have the right to own one so it's illegal and should be reported inmediately unless that person has passed the tests.
That is the meat of the real gun debate in the usa beyond the blind shrilling on both sides. It is a completely understandable moral question. Should the US have such an armed population with all the pain? The gun control laws that have been proposed only do minior help. Raising the age limit to 21 could actually have prevented some, but only in the case of when they obtained a gun legally themselves. All assult weapons bans on the table grandfathered all guns currently owned, now standing at 8 million. Then many want to go futher and ban all simi autos, but that would include over 100 million weapons at least. There would be mass dissident and ilegal firearms in circulation for years. And the measures that would be taken to enforcement could lead to militarization of the police way more then anybody wants.
Yet could gun control be done if it was done more slowly? Perhaps let culture urbanize a little more, etc? I think there is a honest path that the uSA could try, slowly passing more restrictions and seeing where it goes. I am honestly think they'd have a fair shot if the will was for it. Can't blame anyone for wanting to try get rid of guns. I mean can you picture yourself after one being threw one of those things as a child?
As for where the country is heading on it I don't know. Though the left in my country won't admit it, but at least for the past twenty years or so gun control was heading into retreat. There is always a little burst of support for gun control after each high profile shooting but it quickly gets countered by NRA/GOA/The Second Amendment Foundation and gets pushed out of the news by something else. Though this time could be different. It is hard to find good data on stuff and many things are hard to determine demographic wise. On the one hand you have strange facts like being the Millennials of all things being the ones shown most opposed to an assult weapons ban and that as time past on over the last twenty years support for gun restrictions dropped from a solid two thirds majority to dancing about at fifty-fifty. But this time there is a stronger push than before, but will it last or fizzle out to some other left wing cause.
