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[MerCyKiL]

dont ban guns, criminals still will have them...

common sense

banning guns would make it harder and more expensive for criminals to obtain them...

common sense

Yes, it will make it harder for criminals to obtain them. But it would make it impossible for upstanding citizens to buy them legally.
This would leave good people unable to protect themselves.
Therefore the criminals would still have guns, good citizens wouldn't
It is not possible to get rid of guns. I can download a pdf right now that will teach me to make one myself.
The best solution is tightening security at schools. No one should be able to simply walk into a school like he did. Sad that it's necessary but it is.
Teachers have to pass more stringent background checks to be a teacher than to get a pistol permit. There should be a thumbprint lock-box safe at least in the office (if not in every room) with loaded firearms available for the teachers to defend themselves and their students. It worked for the airlines... I haven't noticed any plane hi-jackings lately, have you?

nice point but i think we lie at opposite ends of the politically spectrum on this issue.

i believe that all citizens should be prohibited from owning any firearm of any type. yes, you will have those who still illegally obtain weaponry but that number of people would be far fewer than it is today.

take a look at this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre

after the Dunblane school shootings in 1996, the United Kingdom placed a ban on all cartridge ammunition handguns (law is not in effect in Northern Ireland). since then there have been no more school shootings in the UK.

the US is the most heavily-armed nation in the world. and as a result, we have more firearm-related homicides per capita than any other developed nation (we are excluding countries with turbulent societies, such as Honduras and Venezuela). how are we going to solve this problem by adding more weapons? that's like saying "oh look, that house is on fire. let's go pour some gasoline on it and see if it goes out".

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a great point too