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Originally Posted by sidslotm

I wonder, is it not time for a minimal gun law in the USA, I mean, an assualt rifle. How can a weapon like this ever be sold across the counter and justified in public hands. It has only one purpose, military.

Originally Posted by Morts

I honestly dont see a problem with it anymore, i used to be semi anti-gun, and i believe i've even argued against weapons like these on here.
If a criminal wants an AR-15, he is going to get one, simple as that.
All of our gun control laws here in Denmark havent prevented the criminals from shooting eachother up with just about every type of weapon out there, at some point or another.

While I agree that (generally speaking) assault rifles are military in application, Gun control really isn't an answer. If someone has malice intent, they will get a gun one way or another. All gun control really does, is make it harder for law abiding people to protect themselves. Anyone with malice thought isn't exactly law abiding, they'll get their firearm in the end.

One thought is, if there were more people with concealed carry permits, random shooters like this guy (and the many others like him over the years) wouldn't get very far.

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Originally Posted by Skybird

I doubt any sharpening of gun laws in the US will happen. For Americans, it seems to be not so much a legal issue, but one of culture and attitude basing on the way the history of their country was born and formed, .

Skybirds accurate here i think. The best gun control advocates could hope for is another assault rifle ban, but that's not exactly going to stop bad people. They'll use another gun, or they'll get their assault rifle by means other then walking into a gun store. If guns were to really be snuffed out here in America, gun control would have had to been exercised when we were still a British colony. For us, intergration of firearms into our culture started then, and continues to this day with the added iconic imagery from minutemen, to mountain men, to cowboys and the wild west, the list goes on. We are unique among nations in this regard i think.