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Originally Posted by molson
Edit: One thing that seems to be relatively lacking in the rhetoric this time around is the gun control rants. I think that goes towards this battle over how we're going to characterize this. The gun control rantings generally are about keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, and here, there is a huge effort to disclaim the possibility of mental illness. I think just because the victims were targeted we want to assign as much meaning to the actions as possible.
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I don't understand the gun control rants on this one. The guy illegally obtained and carried a firearm. The laws obviously meant shit to him. Do people really think making tougher laws would have had him think twice about doing this?
Does anyone have a realistic solution on gun control? Because the people looking to commit murders probably don't care about whether their firearm is registered with the proper authorities.