Colorado, gun control and the 2nd Amendment

Glen48 said:

The more of these loonies out there the more people want to arm them selves so on it goes , then more accidental death, more guns available to be stolen.

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Glen48 said:

Canoz Any chance you could come to OZ and shoot a Swan??

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What is the role of guns in Japan, the developed world's least firearm-filled nation and perhaps its strictest controller? In 2008, the U.S. had over 12 thousand firearm-related homicides. All of Japan experienced only 11, fewer than were killed at the Aurora shooting alone. And that was a big year: 2006 saw an astounding two, and when that number jumped to 22 in 2007, it became a national scandal. By comparison, also in 2008, 587 Americans were killed just by guns that had discharged accidentally.

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Glen48 said:

There is nothing any one could have do to prevent this other than total ban on guns, ask why or track where all the ammo was going, he had no record and was a Phd ( Post hole digger? ) student I think doing law.

Metal dect's. at the Movie entrance would have caught him I assume but he would have found away to do some thing else like a shopping mall.
People are like computers each time you interface with the web or hit the keyboard open a site you are adding or changing some thing, same as humans each generation of off spring adds an bit from some parent and over the years one become corrupt and becomes a wobblier, so move on nothing to see here await for the next one.

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bullet21 said:

With 88 guns for every 100 people, the only way you are going to disarm the US population is by force. I honestly think this would lead to a second civil war. Also metal detectors would have done nothing as he came in through a fire exit.

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CanOz said:

Agree, won't happen ... ever..

You could however, make some changes to the laws so they're similar to Canada or Australia. Obama has already hinted at changes. He won't campaign on radical changes though, he would lose the redneck vote completely.

CanOz

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At least seven people, including a suspected gunman, have been killed at shooting a Sikh temple in the United States, local police said.

Greenfield police chief Brad Wentlandt said authorities do not believe a second shooter is hiding inside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek outside Milwaukee, contrary to earlier reports.

One member of the temple said he believed the incident was a "hate crime".

Mr Wentlandt told reporters the situation was "extremely fluid" and that law enforcement agents were still in the process of securing the scene and accounting for all the victims and witnesses.

Four people were killed inside the temple and three others outside.

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gav said:

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

~Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809)

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