sc94597 on 02 October 2017
| CosmicSex said: So guys two of my close friends were at the MGM yesterday and left about 2 hours before the shooting. Why can't we just be sensible about guns? If we want to have accessibility to the public we need real responsible measures to protect ourselves from insane people or we are going to just give them a free licence to kill. I just don't accept that we have to be at their mercy. My friends were there for a birthday and our right to life supersedes everyone's right to murder. We aren't so week that we can't take preemptive actions to protect ourselves. Gun controls, background checks... I don't care we have to do something. |
What do you propose would have prevented this? I am only guessing based on what I heard, but it sounded like the guy had a fully-automatic weapon. These are illegal/inaccessible for the overwhelming majority of Americans, and require extensive (6 month long) background checks. They also cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Furthermore, any automatic weapons produced after 1986 are illegal to own by civilians, and can only be manufactured for military purposes.
