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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Dishonorable discharges are banned from owning firearms, so his guns must have been illegally obtained, so tighter gun control laws wouldn't have done much in his case anyway.

Of course it would. How easy do you think it is to get hold of an assault rifle - either legally OR illegally - in countries where they aren't widely owned by the population? How do you explain the fact that firearms killings in the US are sky high compared to every other western country?

Even for those who believe in the right to own a gun for personal protection... this is an AR-556:




It's an assault rifle, pretty much the same as an AR-15, which is basically a downgraded M16... these are weapons of war used by the US military, they're not handbag pistols. It's utterly insane that you can walk into a shop and buy one.