Reply #29: If you post your idea one million times, do you think people will

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suddenly agree with you on the next post?

It's a nice idea but what you always ignore is that there are 300 million firearms in this nation and there is no magic wand or spell that you can wave or invoke that will make them disappear overnight.

You could pass a law that would ban and confiscate firearms and at the best there probably would be 100 million firearms coated with cosmoline and buried in PVC pipes along with large quantities of ammunition and another 100 million firearms that were never turned in along with a large number of people who would be willing to shoot it out with whatever Gestapo force you would send house to house.

Of course, the criminal element would laugh at the new law and immediately begin smuggling firearms into the nation and selling them on the street corners along with the drugs that are already banned.

It may be unfortunate, but firearms and ammo are and will continue to be a fact of live in our nation.

Firearms in the wrong hands cause tragedy. Some who suffer from serious mental issues hope to lash back at society by finding a place where they can go amok and kill a large number of people. A unarmed college campus attracts such individuals like a bee hive attracts a bear. Future mass murderers are fascinated by the 24/7 news coverage and start to fantasize about how they could rack up a higher score of kills.

The solution is to allow licensed citizens to carry firearms on college campuses just as they do outside the campus. The college would no longer be viewed as a duck shooting gallery to some insane person.