Maybe its different to me having a little military behind me. But I have no issues with firearms. The old cliche of 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' is 100% true. Like someone else posted, guns give the criminal the potential to increase the number of victims.
15 seems an excessive number of weapons to keep in the home. To own? not necessarily. But excessive to keep in the family home.
By the sounds of it, the parents did some things right, and others wrong. Right, they trained the kid in the safe handling of firearms. wrong, in that they let him work with weapons alone.
A ban to restrict firearm ownership won't help. All it does is take away people's passion. What needs to be implemented is regular psychological testing of firearm licence holders. Annual, perhaps.
Still, this won't help stem the tide of illegally owned firearms. What will start helping that is severe punishments. Let the courts make it known that illegal possession of firearms is a serious, criminal offence and will be punished with 10 or 15 years, non-parole.
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