You will not believe it: CNN - Gun control is not the answer

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Hard to believe it's coming from CNN. 

 

Gun control is not the answer 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/17/opinion/granderson-gun-control-fail/

 

But the fact that there is still so much we don't know about Alexis -- or the motive behind the shootings -- won't detour gun-control advocates from lumping his story in with that of Adam Lanza, the man police say is responsible for the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, along with the victims from gang- and drug-related shootings.

 

Gun shops are illegal in Chicago.

The city has bans on both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. And yet each week people continue to die in the streets from gunshot wounds.

 

This happened after Newtown.

It happened after Aurora.

And it will keep continue to happen until the advocates accept that ridding the country of guns is a hopeless -- and unconstitutional mission -- and that the real goal should be addressing the factors that lead to the various forms of gun violence: factors such as poverty, mental health and failing schools.

 

Because like it or not, the folks spraying our cities with bullets are not NRA members or legal gun owners.

 

This is why gun-control advocates need to abandon the routine of using mass shootings to turn law-abiding citizens into social pariahs and instead focus on something that could work.

 

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I believe it.  Cause its the 3rd thread on this article

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I believe it.  Cause its the 3rd thread on this article

 

On this forum? 

I've tried all searches I could imagine and found nothing. 

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http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/61058-i-think-hell-has-frozen-over/

 

http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/61070-i-dont-agree-with-lz-from-cnn-but-this-time-he-did-an-okay-write-up/

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eh it happens

[Old Dog 19]

I posted a similar article on my website today. Although a tragedy, the DC mass shooting shows that gun control is not the answer. Nothing proposed in the past would have stopped this from occurring. It is also an embarrassment to the US Government because the existing laws let a mentally ill person not only legally buy a gun but also obtain a Secret security clearance. What also is embarrassing is that the shooter used a shotgun which Joe Biden recommended as a safer alternative to an AR or handgun. 

 

It also points out that guns can easily be obtained by killing someone authorized to carry them. The fact the government cannot even use existing laws to weed out people who had a trail of mental problems and run-ins with the police that they reported to the Navy, adding new laws will only present more of a burden to a government who cannot handle the burden of the old laws.

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He's completely wrong.

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i had to post this to facebook