Jim Jones killed over 900 people by poisoning Kool-aid. The 9/11 attacks killed 3,000 by crashing a plane in to a building. The Oklahoma city bombing attacks produced 680 casualties with fertilizer and gasoline. The Australian Black Saturday fires were started by an Arsonist who, lead to the deaths of 173 people. Any moron can get their hands on a box cutter, rat poison, fertilizer, or gasoline and with that they could literally kill hundreds of people.
The Orlando shooter killed roughly 49 people. While tragic, he went through background check after background check, was interviewed by the FBI, was put on the terrorist watchlist, underwent over 60 hours of training, and despite all of this, nothing stopped him. With the combination of his handgun and his rifle, he killed nearly 49 people. While tragic, one has to wonder; was it really the gun that did it?
Would better lists and background checks have stopped him from getting a gun? And let's assume that it did. Let's assume that somehow, despite illegal smuggling, illegal black market production, the overwhelming volume of nearly 300 million firearms in the U.S., and the simple fact that handguns and other weapons have proven to be just as deadly in these events (The Texas Tower shooting, the Norway Shootings with pistols, the Texas Tech shooting with handguns). If a single mass shooter had used arson, bombings, or even poison instead, he could have killed far more people. Potentially orders of magnitude more. So, even if we kept a gun out of his hands, would it have prevented a massacre at a nightclub where he could have poisoned the punch, placed a bomb or lit it ablaze and barricaded the doors instead?
And even if by some miracle it did, would America be patting itself on the back? If just one life was saved because he used a knife or a handgun, would America be patting itself on the back saying "Gee, I'm glad only 48 people died instead of 49!". Would anyone even notice a difference. So why, then, is this the argument? Why do people support the insane idea that if somehow, we changed the weapon but let a mad-man continue to go out on the street that somehow America would be safer? That if half the people died, it's somehow a victory? It's not a victory unless no-one dies, unless we prevent this from happening. For some reason people, and namely politicians, are laboring under the delusion that it somehow is something we should fight for, assuming it would work, which it likely wouldn't.
This is common sense. This isn't anything you aren't aware of. A gun takes stalking each and every person in a building, with a loud bang after each shot fired, to get their attention. It takes aim, accuracy and skill to use it correctly, and you can at best, with 100% accuracy, kill one person at a time. A bomb not only can kill far more people, it can do it in a fraction of a second, and when you aren't even there. Other weapons are more deadly and easier to use and obtain. So, what good will gun control do? What point is there to sitting in and shutting down Congress and throwing a temper tantrum if you don't get your way?
I'm not proposing we do nothing. Far from it, in fact. I've listed many ways to prevent tragedies, from mandatory psychological screenings to EMT training, that would save far more lives than just in mass shootings. I've offered up solutions to stop organized crime, who is responsible for smuggling guns, people and drugs across the border. I've mentioned on numerous occasions how training and education will help people manage these problems. But I've also mentioned how gun control won't work. It can't work. It makes no sense, it robs people of their freedoms and will only turn the police and civilians against teach other. All while achieving nothing. You may be naive enough to believe that the U.S. has the most gun violence in the world, which is patently false. [1][2] You may be naive enough to believe that gun control lowered homicide rates in other countries, which is also false. [3][4] You may be naive enough to believe everything the Democrats say without even questioning it for a second. Or even that all of Islam is evil for a handful of attacks that occurred that were by Islam, when over 90% in the U.S. weren't.
But I am going to beg you, going to ask you, going to plead with you, to stop, stop drinking the Kool-aid. Stop with Trump, stop with Hillary.
Find a better way America. I know you can do it.