Nate45 said:
Also you can't legislate against lunacy. I'd be willing to wager that everyone on this fourm has nothing but utter contempt and disdain for school shooters, mall shooters, work place shooters, ect. We also have nothing but sympathy and compassion for their victims. As well as the victims of all crimes perpetrated with firearms.
I disagree with half your statement above.
Sure, when we hear about a school-mall-workplace shooting our first reaction is of contempt for a "loser" or a "cowardly punk", etc. But we should also have some measure of sadness for the shooter. Imagine your life and/or mind being so screwed up that the only way for you to feel any accomplishment is through mass murder. That's very sad. With youths, it's a lack of parental involvement, I think. With people like the V.T. killer it's a mental health issue that's inadequately treated. I don't despise these people, generally. At most, they're pitiful specimens of humanity.
The major flaw with gun control the way the Democrats think about gun control,
If you stopped there and said their thinking is "only the government and
some privileged people can have guns," you'd have hit the nail on the head.
What are laws?
Laws are words, written on paper. They perform no action nor can they prevent someone from acting against them. They are merely
words on paper.
Laws proscribe certain actions by members of society. They also authorize some members of society to act when laws are violated. Laws,
in and of themselves,
deter nothing if there is not a person to enforce those laws.
Even when there are people to enforce those laws, if your odds of success are much higher than the risks of capture and imprisonment, then people will violate those laws. (How many people speed or fail to signal turns? How many people cheat -- even a tiny bit -- on their income taxes?)
The only thing laws really do is allow us to
punish the offender after the fact. They can't prevent crime, they can't stop crime. But they can allow us to punish those to violate the laws.