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SirPikachu posted...

I promise you that the killer did not own that gun legally, and probably wasn't even allowed to have guns at all

All banning guns will do in America is prevent law abiding citizens from protecting themselves. People like this dude will still 100% have just as easy access to guns.

That only makes the situation more dire, and America's inaction more tragic. You must realise that being able to easily get an illegal gun is a symptom of a (very) broken system, not some inevitable law of nature. And if what Mead says is true, that there are more guns than people in America, it's even worse than I thought. While the availability of huge amounts of illegal guns is easy to blame on criminals or 'bad people' or whatever, that situation was co-created by the government, gun manufacturers and yes, even by the influence of law abiding citizens.

You seem to have fallen into a trap, believing that more guns and bullets are necessary in order to protect yourself against all of the guns and bullets.