Having more of them isn't a solution either.Extra Medium wrote:
• A 1997 high school shooting in Pearl, Miss., was halted by the school's vice principal after he retrieved the Colt .45 he kept in his truck.
• A 1998 middle school shooting ended when a man living next door heard gunfire an
d apprehended the shooter with his shotgun.
• A 2002 terrorist attack at an Israeli school was quickly stopped by an armed teacher and a school guard.
• A 2002 law school shooting in Grundy, Va., came to an abrupt conclusion when students carrying firearms confronted the shooter.
• A 2007 mall shooting in Ogden, Utah, ended when an armed off-duty police officer intervened.
• A 2009 workplace shooting in Houston, Texas, was halted by two coworkers who carried concealed handguns.
• A 2012 church shooting in Aurora, Colo., was stopped by a member of the congregation carrying a gun.
• At the recent mall shooting in Portland, Ore., the gunman took his own life minutes after being confronted by a shopper carrying a concealed weapon.
Read more at: http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/h … efense-in/
You don't hear about these things because 30 people don't die.
The more weapons you integrate into society, the more opportunities you create for shootings to occur. The last thing you want is to have two people having a heated argument with weapons at hand, because fisticuffs is going to take a pretty big step up. A cop in Chicago summed it up pretty well about the gang wars going on there. Spats that were once sorted with fists are now being handled with bullets. The more common something becomes, the less people are going to pause and think before doing it.
If someone wants a weapon for home defence, it should be a pistol/revolver/shotgun at most and your ammunition limited. Unless you're the world's most atrocious shot, in which case you shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a gun, you don't need enough bullets to fight off the Legion of Doom. If you want a rifle for hunting or competition shooting, it should be kept at a secured and guarded location with exception of places out in the middle of nowhere (even then, limits should be imposed on exactly what type of weapon you can own). Your ammunition should be limited, you should have to sign that weapon in and out and if you appear to be intoxicated or edgy, the guards should be allowed to refuse access. They do this in military facilities, I don't see why it can't be applied to a civilian environment. Unless you're expecting the Terminator to show up, having something that can rapid fire rounds over a few hundred yards in your house makes little sense.