Originally posted by M5Power
Listen, I agree with you in that we should not have our gun rights restricted, but your logic is all wrong. First off, you didn't directly reply to what I previously said. I'd appreciate it if you did. Second, the "DC snipers" shot just one person in Washington DC. I have no knowledge of a law in Washington stating that you cannot carry within city limits. And finally the gun laws are only effective if enforced. As I said, the snipers bought their gun in either Alabama or New Jersey. If every state had a law like Washington DC (no guns for sale) how could they have purchased a gun?
Do you know how the killers at Columbine purchased their guns? A 22-year-old friend bought the guns for the killers at a gun show, then gave the guns to the killers. In other words, the loose gun laws worked out perfectly for the killers.
Do you remember when Ron Reagan took a bullet in the head in 1989 or so? When the man who shot him was asked what would've made him reconsider shooting Reagan, he had exactly one thing to say: "If it had been harder to get a gun, I wouldn't have done it."
Your logic about people who have been in prison, who are crazy, who have been given a dishonourable discharge, and who are under 21 is good, but still flawed. See, John Muhammad was generally discharged, yet he was still evil enough to kill. Tim McVeigh was honourably discharged after fighting in the Gulf War, but he was evil enough to kill, also. Ted Kaczynski went to the University of Michigan and was a professor at the University of California/Berkeley (the best university other than Stanford in the state) then he moved to Montana and became the unibomber.
Although only a few of these people used guns, I'm describing a pattern. None of these people would be held back from buying a gun because they behaved badly in the US military, or because they were crazy, or because they had a felony conviction. But that doesn't mean they can't kill.