04-19-2007, 08:19 PM
I don't think we're actually going to make any significant changes to the current gun laws anytime soon, at least not anything that has a drastic effect on how guns are purchased. But that is a good point on the fact that the constitution uses the wording to "keep" and to "bear" arms, not the right to easily obtain them.
Although it may be opposite in this situation because by letting one "guilty man" get a gun who really should not have one, it can directly effect others who may be harmed by allowing to him to have a weapon. Although the same argument can really me made when talking about someone who is a killer, but not convicted. He is then free to inflict harm on others until the next time he may be caught.
Unfortunately, this is sad but true. If he's unstable enough to commit a crime like this, who's to say he wouldn't have gone through countless other sources to obtain the weapons to commit this crime. This is why it's hard to change a law to prevent something that was such an extreme example of what can go wrong.
It's similar to those who are angry with VT for not getting the word out in time and telling other's to lock themselves indoors. First there's no way they could have predicted that something this horrible would happen, and second, who's to say he doesn't go into hiding for a day and then do it on tuesday morning when everyone thinks he has most likely fled out of the state.
bimmerboodle Wrote:I would have to say no. But just like in the jury system, the whole" it is better to let 1 guilty man go free than convict an innocent one" has to apply here as well.
Although it may be opposite in this situation because by letting one "guilty man" get a gun who really should not have one, it can directly effect others who may be harmed by allowing to him to have a weapon. Although the same argument can really me made when talking about someone who is a killer, but not convicted. He is then free to inflict harm on others until the next time he may be caught.
bimmerboodle Wrote:No matter what, there will be deranged individuals bent on harm. Always has been and always will.
Unfortunately, this is sad but true. If he's unstable enough to commit a crime like this, who's to say he wouldn't have gone through countless other sources to obtain the weapons to commit this crime. This is why it's hard to change a law to prevent something that was such an extreme example of what can go wrong.
It's similar to those who are angry with VT for not getting the word out in time and telling other's to lock themselves indoors. First there's no way they could have predicted that something this horrible would happen, and second, who's to say he doesn't go into hiding for a day and then do it on tuesday morning when everyone thinks he has most likely fled out of the state.
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