jmog;1880773 wrote:If you took the gun out of his hand and put a bomb, what did you really change? Seriously, you have to see that a deranged person (terrorist, mentally ill, whatever) will find a way.
Tim McVeigh used fertilizer and a truck. The attack in Nice, France used just a truck.
At the end of the day if a terrorist or mentally insane person is going to kill 40 people, why does it matter to you (and most leftists) if they use a gun, a home made bomb, a truck, a jet plane, etc?
Take the guns away they do it another way, the commonality of how often it happens is no more or less in other western countries once you just list mass killings rather than just mass shootings.
Motivation and Opportunity are both necessary but not sufficient conditions for crime. You are talking about motivated criminals. Just because people are motivated to commit crime does not mean that is a an argument against reducing,opportunities to commit crime or create impediments to larger crimes.
For example, a world wherein terrorists are more likely to try and use cars to cause terror is a better world than one wherein they use firearms because it is easier for policymakers, businesses, etc. to design environments that limit deaths at the hands of motivated criminals.
A guy trying to,kill his,ex mother in,law and whoever else in church with a knife is better than with a gun. As such impediments that might deter motivated individuals from buying guns while not unduly burdening the 2nd amendment are desirable.
