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Originally Posted by sammyg2 View Post
When a wacko wants to kill, he will find a way. If he gets a gun he'll use it. If he can't get a gun he'll find something else to use.
The gun is simply a tool and taking away the guns will not take away the killing.
IN the past 5 years, there was an early muslim male that decided to do his jihad part. He took his SUV and started running over people in I think Santa Barbara.

Where there is a will, there is a way. Unfortuantely, we have a country of 300M people and a certain small percentage are unstable wackos. And until they do something to alert the authorities, they are not put into the system.

It also appears that his mother works for one of the local governments and used her influence to prevent her "little angle" from going to jail. SHE should have known he was unstable and she should have done something.

He was recently thrown out of a local community college. He was not to be allowed back without a mental check. BUT, he opted to drop out instead. His parents should have sent him off to doctors at that point. But they didn't.

So where is the failure? People who knew him, knew he was a problem, yet did nothing. So instead we have people suggesting yet another set of gun laws.

No. We have enough gun laws. What we need are people and parents with the guts to do what is needed, instead of relying on "some one else", like "the government", to do the dirty work.
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