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Australia did fairly well with their buyback initiative to take guns out of circulation...
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“All the regulation in the world wouldn’t have prevented necessarily what happened today.
There's obviously exaggeration there because you could devise some form of regulation that helps to collect all those guns. But I wonder if there is a point there in that it's a societal thing.
I thought this was an interesting take devoid of gun legislation debate:
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/09/the-revenge-of-the-lost-boys/
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John Crescitelli, a family doctor and 15 year-old Sarah Crescitelli’s father, was shaking as he was reunited with his daughter. He feared she had been killed.
“These school shootings have to stop. This is crazy. My son’s football coach died. It’s horrible,” he said. “It’s like Columbine across the street from my house.”
Asked by the Guardian if the tragedy should lead to stricter gun control for people with mental health issues, he replied: “I don’t want to get into a gun debate. I really don’t. What are you going to do? Confiscate everybody’s guns? We have millions and millions of weapons … I’m a gun owner. I don’t want the government taking my gun.”
Michael Irwin, another parent whose son attended the school, shared Crescitelli’s view.
“All the regulation in the world wouldn’t have prevented necessarily what happened today. It’s something that’s tragic, but what regulation can you pass that takes away the guns that are already out there?” he said.
His son was waiting to hear if one of his close classmates was among the dead. By late Wednesday evening, Irwin said, the student was still missing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/15/how-the-florida-high-school-shooting-unfolded-students-gunman?CMP=share_btn_fb