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WanderingEng  ·  3356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How would you stop mass shootings?

    the real issue which is 'How do you prevent individuals with antisocial tendencies from expressing them?'

One answer is 'you limit the ability of individuals to access dangerous items.'

    Outlaw guns, we'll see a rise in the amount of bombings.

I disagree. If the two were interchangeable, we'd see a nominal number of bombings in parallel with the gun violence we already see. That just isn't happening. Building a bomb takes a different commitment than shooting a gun. One requires time to research and construct the weapon. The other does not.