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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Attitudes to firearms is the problem not the firearms themselves, do most of you realise how deadly a knife can be in the right hands or the number of people you can kill quickly with a knife sorry but unless we are all going to wrap ourselves up in bubble wrap and take away everything that could potentially be used as a weapon there is little can be done about nutters. This coward appears to have recently plunged off the cliff of sanity and decided to kill people yes he did it with a firearm he could have chosen numerous other methods and achieved the same thing.
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There are an awful lot of things people could do if they were determined that cannot be prevented. What is possible is to raise the bar higher so that a greater degree of determination is required and detection likelihood increased.
Shooting people up with an assault rifle is possible in the UK, too, however the rifle has to be smuggled as you can't buy one at a local convention or store which eliminates many as they don't have the contacts or patience to obtain them and widens the detection vector for law enforcement.
50 people could be killed with a bomb, however that bomb would come in a form factor somewhat less convenient than a rifle, or would require someone to purchase attention-grabbing quantities of materials to produce the explosive.
Should we repeal the drink-driving laws because they are wrapping us in bubble wrap? The requirement to have a licence to drive? There are a bunch of regulations surrounding us that are a compromise between complete liberty and safety, surely some common sense gun controls such as not allowing terrorist sympathisers to own guns or private citizens to own military rifles are on the reasonable side of that compromise?