JWeinCom said:
You make a pretty big jump from that first to second paragraph. Suddenly you go from "doesn't make it go away" to completely ineffective. We ban rape. Do we ban it because if we do nobody will rape anyone ever again? No, but it will reduce the amount of rape that happens. Same principle here. Won't eliminate it completely, but could very well limit these types of incidents. Take the recent shooting. We have a guy with mental problems who had access to his mom's guns in the house. So, what if there weren't guns in the house. Would he have been able to obtain them through illegitimate means? Without people who know him getting suspicious? Stricter gun control would have certainly made the weapons harder to maintain, and the harder it is to get from idea to action the less likely it is to happen. |
Banning rape is banning behavior.. Prohibiting weapons is prohibition of objects. As we all know prohibition doesn't work. And as you pointed out mental condition is the-problem. (specifically psychiatric dope). Why you choose prohibition instead of reinstating the useoff mental hospitals is perverse IMO. Every shooting spree had psychiatric drugs being forced on the killer
Well I wouldn't expect to change anyone's mind. Something to think about.