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Several points:
- penalties for using banned guns and magazines mean nothing to a lunatic who plans to kill himself anyway.
- there are enough guns of all sorts loose in America now for the carnage to continue for centuries if no-one ever built or sold another gun starting today.
- America may be number one in gun ownership, but that’s an effect, not a cause. America is also number one (in the former ‘First World) in punishment. America is a holdout against the UN’s Rights of the Child’s efforts to outlaw coprporal punishment of children. (Honestly, Canada is moving pretty slow on it too. We’re not so different, you and I.) Apparently, whooping your kids is an important “freedom” too.
- the mental illness issue that we’re talking about as an alternative conversation to gun control, is very largely due to the culture of punishment. If shooting your parents and a bunch of teachers isn’t some kind of reaction to over-punishment, I don’t know what would describe it better.
