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RE: School Shooting at Parkland High School in Florida(edited) -by @voiceofreason

in #news7 years ago (edited)

Easy access to guns is a huge problem...unfortunately we only have to look to Los Angles and Chicago to see the infiltration of guns into the inner city by the government. This is an issue that has been around since the 80's. Any digging on the matter and you will find accounts of train cars filled with guns stopped in Compton, the doors open for all to take. Or Chicago where boxes of guns are left in alleys to be found by passer-bys.

But these are conspiracy theories, so let's deal in facts. It is "easy" to build, from scratch, your own gun. Back in the day these were called zipguns. Now, with modern manufacturing, and I'm not even talking about 3d printing....just modern tools you can purchase cheaply at a Harbor Freight, you can build an AK-47 or an AR-15.

Note I used the word "easy". There is skill involved, machining and such, but nothing a motived learning can't pickup. Machine shop in high school would be enough for most.

I guess what I am getting at is that to solve the Killing Problem requires more than fixing the Gun Problem. Yes, we need to fix easy access, but more importantly, we need to fix the reason young men kill.