Okay... over the past ten years how many crime incidents with guns do you think have happened here in America?
And...
The same question would have to be applied to things like alcohol and automobiles
Jack...
Gun-related deaths and injuries...all of them combined...pale in comparison to the highway carnage...even with alcohol removed from the equation. What do we do about that?
Any whackjob can take a quart of gasoline, an empty glass bottle, and a piece of rag and construct a fire bomb. Do we ban the sale of gasoline and phase out glass bottles and regulate rags and require registration of Bic lighters...because of what someone might do? Can you imagine the outrage?
You seem to be on board with further restrictions imposed on tens of millions of gun owners and shooters who have never killed anyone, nor ever will...on the very small possibility that it will somehow keep another nut job from going postal.
Criminals and sociopaths pay scant attention to rules and regulations. Once a man has decided to commit the ultimate crime against God and humanity, no law...no rule...and no posted sign will stop that.
It's far more likely that further restrictions would remove the one tool that actually could stop an attack in progress. There were a few handguns locked in cars at Luby's that fateful morning...left there by law-abiding citizens who complied with the law. On the other hand, the killer wasn't deterred in the least by that law, nor by the law against murder.
If only one had been armed and willing to shoot him down at the outset that morning, the body count would very likely have been much lower.
There also seems to be a prevailing belief that anything that is restricted or banned will henceforth become unavailable. If history has taught us nothing else, it's shown that a man who is determined to have something will eventually have it. All it takes is desire and money. If he decides that he wants a live hand grenade, he can arrange it. If he decides that he wants to have sexual relations with a 10 year-old virgin, he can arrange it. No law or restriction will stop him.