Before the gun control nuts come out of the woodwork

MuyLocoNC

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Are we going to somehow develop a smart knife too??

And BTW!!! Could you explain exactly how a smart gun would have rendered this situation useless?? Because the guns were legally registered and owned by the killer. The guns would have worked perfectly well as he gunned down his victims and the smart gun would have had ZERO effect on this situation.

You are acting blonder than usual.
It might have helped since it's only available in .22 Cal. Same theory holds that the roommates might be alive today if we were all only allowed plastic silverware with biometric recognition.

It's fairly clear this chucklehead was mentally ill, no need to pile on and call him a Democrat too. That's just nasty.
 

schuylaar

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So, Elliot Rodger is basically Adam Lanza with a BMW. He is the spawn of a Hollywood director and comes from a gun-free (undoubtedly Democrat) home.

Is there any way this massacre could have been prevented? Skylard's smart gun wouldn't have prevented it.
link please?
 

tightpockt

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Lol @ the title of this thread...
Like you have to be a nut to think its a bad idea to let just anyone buy multiple killing machines.
 

Ceepea

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All of those things listed in the key are still factors in mass killings. It may be a mentally unstable person who pulls the trigger, but there is still a trigger to pull. Stating that the guns have NOTHING to do with the killings is just as dishonest as completely blaming the killings on the gun.

People are ultimately responsible but guns easy facilitate. You can't overlook the ease at which guns allow for unstable people to kill, and call it a fair analysis.
 

Commander Strax

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All of those things listed in the key are still factors in mass killings. It may be a mentally unstable person who pulls the trigger, but there is still a trigger to pull. Stating that the guns have NOTHING to do with the killings is just as dishonest as completely blaming the killings on the gun.

People are ultimately responsible but guns easy facilitate. You can't overlook the ease at which guns allow for unstable people to kill, and call it a fair analysis.
how is "Law abiding gun owners" part of the problem?
 

Ceepea

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how is "Law abiding gun owners" part of the problem?
I don't believe that being 'law abiding' and being 'responsible' are the same thing. There are lots of careless gun owners who legally own and store firearms (lol), that are easily accessible by people who are mentally ill. I'm not saying blame the gun owner for the crime someone else committed, but people who are irresponsible are still part of the problem.
 

Commander Strax

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I don't believe that being 'law abiding' and being 'responsible' are the same thing. There are lots of careless gun owners who legally own and store firearms (lol), that are easily accessible by people who are mentally ill. I'm not saying blame the gun owner for the crime someone else committed, but people who are irresponsible are still part of the problem.
good point
 

BigNBushy

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I don't believe that being 'law abiding' and being 'responsible' are the same thing. There are lots of careless gun owners who legally own and store firearms (lol), that are easily accessible by people who are mentally ill. I'm not saying blame the gun owner for the crime someone else committed, but people who are irresponsible are still part of the problem.
Blaming a gun owner who's guns were stolen and used in a shooting is like blaming someone who had a truck stolen and the driver ran over some bicycle rider trying to get away.
 

Ceepea

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Blaming a gun owner who's guns were stolen and used in a shooting is like blaming someone who had a truck stolen and the driver ran over some bicycle rider trying to get away.
I'm not blaming them. I'm saying the term 'legal owner' doesn't mean 'responsible owner'. To say that careless gun owners who have their firearms stolen aren't an variable in gun crime is dishonest. They're not the 'cause' but they are certainly not helping to mitigate the problem either.

As you may have not read an/or forgotten;

I'm not saying blame the gun owner for the crime someone else committed, but people who are irresponsible are still part of the problem.
 
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