Columbine is when we started carrying ARs. Almost immediately.
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The Columbine shooting was on April 20, 1999, while the ban on AR-15 platforms were in effect.1 8-year-old Harris and his 17-year-old partner Dylan Klebold obtained these weapons illegally. The ban did nothing to prevent them from obtaining the weapons. As the quaote from the movie Shane states "A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that."
You take one tool away from bad people but they will find another, Timothy James McVeigh used a rented Ryder truckt full of diesel fuel and fertilizer in the1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people and injured over 680 others.
The Tokyo subway sarin attack was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan.
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injury of 458 others.
Saturday 21 July 2018, Ten people were injured, three seriously, when a man armed with a kitchen knife attacked passengers on a crowded bus in the northern German city of Lübeck.
Evil people will always find away
Bottom line it is not the tools fault, there are extremely bad people in the world, that need to be hung. I have no compasion at all for people like this, and I mean none. I say bring back public hangings. Tired of people blaming guns for the issues going on. Guns have been part of America's history since the begining. Why now do we have these mass shootings by young white males (mostly). I will give you one reason, parents stopped bing parents, they want to be their kids best frined, that is why. We don't spank are children anymore, we allow them to talk back, without getting a slap in the mouth. Instead we say they are expressing themselves, bullshit they are being little shits, We, have created a culyure when they are growing up that they get a trophy for losing. Sorry, when you lose you dont earn shit, you learn how to deal with disappointment. You train harder , work harder and study harder to be on the winning team next time. We blame teachers for kids getting bad grades, instead of blaming the chil for not doing their homework or studying instead of being on their dam cell phone or video game.
We over diagnosed these children with ADHD and put them on all kinds of drugs, such as Ritalin (methylphenidate) not knowing the long term effects. My kids were not allowed to have cell phones while growing up, they did not get a cell phone until they moved out of my house, video games were not allowed in their room and they only got to play for 2 hours on the weekend. Other then that they were studying, playing outside on their bikes or with friends. My kids are now 21, 22 and 27. they all have college degrees and are all in the Military. 2 are Marines, and one Air Force, oh and they all own Jeep Wranglers. I am so tired of parents wanting the government to raise their children instead of them. I see parents bing watching T.V and not spending any time with their kids. Oh, all my boys were Boy Scounts and 2 made Eagle Scout. I was a Scout Master for 12 years and my wife a Cub Master for 16 years. I became a Scout Master and leader to spend time with my sons and go camping and hiking. That is the cure for ADHD, not drugs. Kids sit in their dam bedrooms all day playing video games and playing on their phones that they dont know how to inter eact with society and deal with disappointment, they think they should be the center of attention. They never release that pent up energy, kids don't play outside hell they dont even have gym class anymore.
Hell, I remeber going to school with rifles hanging in the back of pick ups during hunting season.
Then they grow up and wonder why they cant function in the real world, when they find out their opinion real doesn't matter. I remember my Grandfather telling me Kids should be seen not heard. Every kid needs a good old country ass whooping once in a while to. Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child.
Ok, I will get off my soap box. My last thing, stop blaming guns, start blaming parents.