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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (26 children)

We have gun control. That is why the question the article asks is what law could have changed stopped it.

We are not without gun laws here. We have a lot of laws in this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (13 children)

Pizzaman's point is that American gun control is not equivalent to German gun control, though. His argument is in the details.

From the article he linked:

German gun laws restricts the acquisition, possession, and carrying of firearms to those with a creditable need for a weapon.

They also ban fully automatic guns and severely restrict the acquisition of other types of weapons.

Compulsory liability insurance is required for anyone who is licensed to carry firearms.

In other words, yeah, we have gun control laws, but as long as the Supreme Court continues to (foolishly) recognize an individual right to firearms with no relation to a militia, an interpretation that's only a little over a decade old, then yeah, no version of American gun control laws are ever going to be effective.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (11 children)

They also ban fully automatic guns and severely restrict the acquisition of other types of weapons.

Fully automatic weapons are heavily restricted here. Can you think of one ever being used in a crime? I can't.

Compulsory liability insurance is required for anyone who is licensed to carry firearms.

Do you think that would change anything? Do you think the criminals would say, Oh Crap! I can't afford the liability insurance. Do you think that would have stopped the Kansas City shooting?

German gun laws restricts the acquisition, possession, and carrying of firearms to those with a creditable need for a weapon.

That wouldn't have stopped the Kansas City shooting either. They didn't legally own the firearms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

You make a strong case for the abolishment of all guns.

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