Comment Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... (Score 1) 698
I don't own guns or have strong feelings one way or the other.
But it's kind of a bit late for any "sensible gun legislation" to prevent school shootings. The guns are out there and the kids get them and shoot things up. Often from stealing their parents' locked legally-owned guns. Outside of the outlier of some obvious psycho that somehow avoided being treated or locked up getting a gun and shooting up a school, it's usually troubled kids getting them from their parents.
Making it 50% harder to buy a gun or get a license isn't going to stop the school shooting problem.
If one COULD wave a magic wand and get rid of the millions of guns off the continent and make the factories disappear, it WOULD reduce the number of gun deaths for a while.
But without strong border controls, criminals would just find a new way to get them in.