Several Dead in Dark Knight Premiere Mass Shooting

[saden1]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Would you guys rather be a surviving victim of a lone gunman whole killed 12 and wounded you and 58 others, or would you rather be a surviving victim of a bomb that hurt and killed the same number? Id take being shot than having something exploded on me and those around me. Being shot at least affords the opportunity to fight back.

My point is this guy is crazy. If you want to cause mass harm you can. Banning guns of any type wont stop that.

You're not offering much of a choice, especially those who are in the line of the fire or explosion. I mean, would you rather have your eyes gouged or have the left side of your brain removed?

Banning "assault weapons" will stop someone from shooting 71 people in a crowded theater in a short period. It certainly works in the rest of the civilized world, I can't imagine it won't work here.

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by saden1

You're not offering much of a choice, especially those who are in the line of the fire or explosion. I mean, would you rather have your eyes gouged or have the left side of your brain removed?

Banning "assault weapons" will stop someone from shooting 71 people in a crowded theater in a short period. It certainly works in the rest of the civilized world, I can't imagine it won't work here.

Yeah horrible choice regardless. Awful choices. But one of humanities saving graces, perhaps now defining faults, has been our ingenuity. If someone wants to harm a mass amount of people they will. So while banning assault weapons may stop someone from shooting 71 people, it wont necessarily stop them from killing and maiming 71 people.

More importantly a gun, even scary ones, allow a person to protect themselves. And while a handgun may suffice in most situations it certainly wont in all. When theres massive civil unrest horrible things can happen that local municipalities arnt able to calm. Its happening in Mexico right now. When the Rodney King Riots broke out it happened in LA, when Katrina hit it happened in NO.

If you have the resources to get out of dodge when something bad is brewing more power to you. But if youre too poor to leave, stuck by chance, or just want to ride it out you should have the right to protect yourselves at all means.

Guns, assault rifles, 100 round mags, and other scary things arnt the problem, theyre just the scapegoat.