How can we regulate guns ... ?

ICANT writes:There are millions of very religious people who are depraved and have no one to answer too but themselves.

ICANT writes:I have a 30.06 rifle that I could part your hair with at 100 yards without scratching the surface of your head. It would probably blister the skin from the friction. It can handle a 10 shot magazine which can be ejected and replaced in less than 2 seconds. It has much more killing power that the so-called assault weapons. But if I was going to do something like in the school I would not choose it or an AR15 semi-automatic or an AK47 semi-automatic rifle.Either of those with a 30 round clip can only fire 30 projectiles before you have to reload. I would choose a Saiga 12 12 gauge shotgun with a 10 round magazine using 00 buckshot which has 9 pellets per shot which would produce 90 projectiles before a reload would be required.
The shotgun can fire just as fast as either of the rifles mentioned, and you would have 3 times the opportunity to cause damage.No gun can kill anyone by itself.
The first thing that is required is for someone to have the gun in their posession.
The second thing is that ammunition has to be placed in the chamber.
The third thing that has to happen is the gun must be pointed at the target.
The gun could be in this position as long as the person who was holding the gun could support the weight of the gun and it would not kill anyone.
For the gun to kill anybody the three things above must be accomplished.The fourth thing is the safety must be taken off.The fifth thing is the triger must be depressed to release the firing pin to strike the ammunition to cause it to fire the projectile.The gun can not accomplish any of these 5 things by itself.It takes intervention by a human.For a human to depress the triger on a gun he/she has to make a decision to kill whatever the gun is pointed at.To fix the problem with deaths by guns the humans need to be fixed. The gun is only a tool, and if that tool is not available another tool will be found and used if a person is intent on taking the life of someone.Evidence of that is the 1,704 deaths by knives and cutting instruments, the 540 death by blunt instruments (clubs, hammers, etc.), and 745 deaths by personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.).What would cause a person to decide to take the life of another person?That is the problem that needs to be fixed.

ICANT writes:I have a 30.06 rifle that I could part your hair with at 100 yards without scratching the surface of your head.

ICANT writes:

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This surprising figure is caused in part by a few respondents reporting large numbers of defensive gun uses during the year; for example, one woman reported 52!

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The woman reported 52 not 521.

CS writes:Would you try explaining to Panda why that matters?

CS writes:I simply do not understand which statement I have not explained.

CS writes:Would you try explaining to Panda why that matters?

CS writes:I just don't see where I've failed to explain it.

Panda writes:What effect does being already knee deep in guns have?
Why do I need to keep it in mind?

CS writes:...guns-being-brought-in is a non-issue when there's already too many guns there to begin with.

Taq writes:Unless we are willing to have government agents go door to door and forcefully search and seize weapons we are going to have to live with the fact that there are millions and millions of weapons out there. There is no way of getting around it. The only way around this problem that I see is to confiscate weapons if they are found on people whne they are in public, but even then we would have to really rethink our constitutional rights as it pertains to search and seizure.

Taq writes:Overall, I think our money, time, and energy are better spent fixing the underlying problems in our culture.

Admin writes:When CS asks, "How would this being national make it too difficult for people to by-pass?", what is it that he is talking about?

Panda writes:Gun legislation needs to be national else it is too easy for people to by-pass.