I will agree with you. I ma concentrating on the criminal element as others here do as well, because that is the seat of the problem. I often use the example that dynamite is not sold in stores to just anybody for the obvious reason of public safety. Likewise with many things that other uses. The connection with guns IS the criminal element which likewise is not allowed in the dynamite example. The problem with weapons of the AR15 is precisely the public danger element that we have seen over and over with these types of weaponry in mass killings and police deaths. And it is true - it not the gun but the people; the justice system only works one at a time and these mass killings are like a conga line. Moreover ow do you solve the "people problem"? The "pro gun people" as I call them have no idea, the NRA has no idea, the Republicans have no idea, none of them have put fourth anything in the way of a working and satisfactory plan that can actually show some results, but like murder itself, all you can do is imprison of execute the guilty and sit and wait for the next one. THAT is a people problem too. The mass killings in restaurants, and schools and on the street ARE in effect terrorist events; so where does the public go with this problem? Does everybody have to suit up with body armor and Kevlar helmets so that the gun crowd can have their AR15s? Thinking rationally about these things, the only thing really - that is left is banning such weaponry until such a time that we can gain some sort of control over this people problem that we just did not have a generation or two ago. I'm a gun owner, I raised around guns, but we gotta do something, and nothing seems to be working except just making certain weaponry and magazines unavailable to the public - in all 50 states - until such time as we can get a handle on stopping the thinking that creates this crap in the first place.
Edit: sorry to be so wordie, but you're new and I wanted to be able to understand my full position.
