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Originally Posted by Madmartagen

As for the gun control, this type of violence is a price we have to pay for living in this type of free society. People want guns, its that simple. There are alot of bad people here and since they have access to guns, youre gonna have this type of problem. There is no way you could effectively ban weapons in the US, there are too many of them out there. If for some reason, every gun in the US were to dissolve right now, people would still manage to get them elsewhere. The only problem in this case was that the officer should have shot sooner and better. In some cases you learn from your mistakes with your life, and that was this case. Im all for guns, owning some myself, the only problem is that just about anyone can get them. I think a requirement should be some training courses and a better criminal background checks. Like I said, im all for guns, but I dont think it should be a constitutional amendment, because then it means everyone should be allowed to own one, and I certainly dont agree to that.

I agree...with a lot of what you said.

The problem is criminal don't buy their guns legally in the first place. Criminal background checks are a good idea, but the reality is that it doesn't deter criminals from obtaining firearms.

Training courses might help to prevent accidents, but certainly wouldn't prevent incidents such as these. Besides, statistically swimming pools are much more dangerous in terms of accidental deaths than firearms, and there is no training required to own a residential pool.

Not sure what the solution is, but guns control laws don't seem to work. Perhaps, if felons actually served their full terms and if sentencing of convicted criminals was a bit more harsh, it would curtail some crimes.