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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by 1k2ka on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:41AM (#16445497)
Does the possibility of needing to fend off some lunatic outweigh all the negatives of loose gun control? Rural residents will still be able to own a gun but maybe they should pass a psych test first and maybe that gun shouldn't be military grade.
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Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ... by ddaygold on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:56AM (#16445771)
The laws banning military grade weapons already exist -- the civilian AR-15 is not an military grade M-16, it is difficult to obtain an automatic weapon, destructive devices are banned-ish.

Fundamentally the problem is that gun ownership is a core American ideal (to enough electorally well placed people), so outright bans are infeasible and other restrictions cause a race by manufacturers to innovate around the restrictions.

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