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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 799160" data-attributes="member: 14668">To clarify; once this guy made his decision, the outcome would not have been affected by a ban on the sale of high capacity magazines. It would not have been affected by a 7-day waiting period. It would not have been affected by background checks, or by creating a &quot;gun free zone&quot; where the murders occured, or by banning open carry, or by requiring guns to be registered, or any of the other multitude of useless&quot;feel good&quot; laws that the anti-gun crowd clamors for every time a murder with a gun takes place.&nbsp;You know what might have stopped this from happening? Imagine if he had showed up at that rally and found himself surrounded by law-abiding citizens who were all openly carrying. Unless he was truly suicidal, he may very well have had second thoughts about opening fire if he knew that it would probably cost him his life. And if he was truly suicidal, and truly motivated to kill, then he could have just as easily gotten on the Internet and learned how to make a backpack bomb using materials readily available at any hardware store. He would not have needed access to a gun to do what he did.&nbsp;If there is a failure here, it is a failure in the manner in which our society monitors, diagnoses, and treats the mentally ill.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 799160, member: 14668"] To clarify; once this guy made his decision, the outcome would not have been affected by a ban on the sale of high capacity magazines. It would not have been affected by a 7-day waiting period. It would not have been affected by background checks, or by creating a "gun free zone" where the murders occured, or by banning open carry, or by requiring guns to be registered, or any of the other multitude of useless"feel good" laws that the anti-gun crowd clamors for every time a murder with a gun takes place. You know what [I]might[/I] have stopped this from happening? Imagine if he had showed up at that rally and found himself surrounded by law-abiding citizens who were all [I]openly carrying[/I]. Unless he was truly suicidal, he may very well have had second thoughts about opening fire if he knew that it would probably cost him his life. And if he [I]was[/I] truly suicidal, and truly motivated to kill, then he could have just as easily gotten on the Internet and learned how to make a backpack bomb using materials readily available at any hardware store. [I]He would not have needed access to a gun to do what he did.[/I] If there is a failure here, it is a failure in the manner in which our society monitors, diagnoses, and treats the mentally ill. [/QUOTE]

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