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Comment by Marisa Mostek on July 22, 2012 at 9:34pm

Yes yes thank you for your comment! I didn't mention that I definitely am all for stricter regulations on background checks for people desiring to obtain firearms, etc. I just think that the main blog claim to ban them altogether is illogical.

Comment by Jessica Thomas on July 22, 2012 at 9:24pm

I agree with Marisa.  However, I believe it would be beneficial to us if there were stricter gun regulations and that it should be difficult to attain a gun nowadays.

Comment by Marisa Mostek on July 22, 2012 at 9:12pm

I'm not trying to be difficult or Devil's advocate, but I disagree that firearms need to be illegal. Someone like Holmes with clearly premeditated motives would have found a way to do what he did regardless of laws in place. Making all firearms illegal not only goes against the second amendment but is impractical to enforce. It would simply drive the industry to become a black market. Hunting is a huge deal in the United States and beneficial to maintaining certain ecosystems when practiced according to regulation. Also, with the current state of the branches of our government, a law like that would absolutely never pass. Obama was quoted saying that he doesn't see why people shouldn't have firearms for legal purposes. I would never personally own a gun, but the sheer long shot of a complete ban on all firearms being enacted indicates that things will likely remain as they are. These are freak incidents, shootings: psychopaths find a way to do their deeds. An anti-firearm law would simply throw a small hurdle in their way.

Comment by Andrea Tavino on July 21, 2012 at 3:56pm

       I agree that we never seem to hear about incidents where guns (legal or otherwise) actually protect anyone from harm. Or, at least, those incidents pale in comparison to the harmful ones. I find it perplexing how something which inevitably blows up in our faces, is the very thing we collectively cling to like a security blanket. The only upside to owning a gun – it seems to me – is some people simply like guns. Of course, we should also hear a gun owner’s opinion.

Finally, I’d like to add how interesting I find it that police were able to arrest an armed man who killed 12 people without beating, shooting or tasing him. 

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