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In reply to the discussion: Personal carry not authorized - Weapons in secure locations around campus for a select few... [View all]Sophia4
(3,515 posts)The only answer. I repeat.
The only answer is to make the possession of weapons like the AR-15, the whole class of weapons a felony.
I visited my grandmother, the wife of a farmer, in the mid-1960s. She was joking about how, during WWII, they used to collect hemp and sell it so that the Navy could make rope out of them. She remembered exactly what a plant was worth, how much she had sold it for.
I had no idea what hemp or marijuana was. She had to explain to me what the joke was about.
But things that are at one time perfectly legal even valuable can be made illegal. Happened to hemp plants. And in some states, marijuana and hemp are again legal.
We need to make these horrifyingly dangerous instruments of mass death called automatic weapons illegal. No question about it in my mind.
I'm all for hunting rifles that are not automatic and don't kill people in droves. I like venison, love it in fact.
But no one needs one of these guns like an AR-15, and they should be outlawed.
Changing the age of eligibility to buy a gun would not have stopped the shooters in Las Vegas or at the night club in Florida.
And training teachers or others in the schools to use guns is a waste of money and the precious time of those trained. In addition, it probably would not prevent the loss of life that simply making the possession of such instruments of death a felony, a serious crime.