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Originally Posted by Hugh
So if you can't fix everything, you shouldn't fix anything?
Why can't gun owners be subject to the same rules as car owners?
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How would it make a difference? Guns are banned in this country, but gun crime still exists even though we didn't have much of a gun culture before the ban.
Restricting ownership would need to be on a clear cut set of rules. Otherwise decisions would be continually challenged. That is why gun ownership in this country was based upon the principle of allowing it, unless there was a clear identified reason not to allow it.
A lot of attacks are "out of the blue", so there tends not to have been a clear reason for banning gun ownership. Also the attacker may not be the owner of the guns used, it might be the parent. In one case the attacker used the parents guns with which they had been trained to use, so training doesn't exactly help.