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A simple google search found many cases of people driving a car with the sole intent on running someone down in cold blood...it's just like a loaded weapon.
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That is the key here (in my eyes anyway). Singular, not plural. And the person chasing someone with a car is looking to kill someone that they believe did them wrong, not mass amounts of innocent bystanders before they take their own life. Killing mass amounts of people in short order then killing yourself is the issue here. I doubt many of those stories you are referring to the person was trying to kill a mass amount of random people and then have the intent of killing themselves. You are comparing two very different scenarios. We are talking about numerous times a lone (or two) gunman has killed mass amounts of bystanders to go out in style. That is the situation we are talking about. We are not talking about any other incidents where a person tries to do harm to another.
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As for my stance on gun control, quit blaming the weapon, learn to blame the idiot who uses them illegally.
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Go back and read my original post #44. I clearly said I blame the killer not the weapon.
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I live within the confines of the law, and the law keeps changing because there are those that refuse to live as we should. Changing the current laws would do nothing, especially in this case. The guy is a mentally ill 20 year old. According to CT law, it's against the law for anyone under the age of 21 to possess a handgun.
One report claims that a .223 caliber rifle was used...most people think of assault weapons when they think of .223. If it was an assault weapon, those are also banned in CT.
How's those gun laws working for ya?
The nutjob killed his parents, then killed the kids...NOT THE GUN. The gun is an inanimate object.
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Again, I clearly stated the shooter killed the people so throw that argument out the window please.
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If they were killed with rocks, would you be saying that we need to discuss rock control laws?
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Ludacrous statement. You seriously think he could have killed 27 people with a rock? I don't recall hearing multiple stories of people killing mass amounts of people in the past few decades with a rock.
Obviously if someone wants to kill someone they will find a way. Like I stated earlier, I'm on the fence but you are saying that you are refusing to even have a discussion about it.
In all seriousness, from someone that is so against gun control. What is your reasoning against it? (Please say something other than government controlling you)