Sorry, but Devil's advocate is way too much fun w this one!
This one nut did more damage, and did it easier and faster, all by himself than all nine men did at the OK Corral, and most people know why even if they won't admit it.
Bringing up how fast JM can shoot his wheelguns, or how many TM killed w a bomb doesn't really do you any good. Might as well argue the jawbone of an ass is a deadlier weapon than a bomb or a Glock cuzz Samson killed a thousand w his.
If guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns? So what!? London may have more shootings than before, but still waaaaay less than LA, DC, Chicago, or NYC.
The USA was safer before the NFA and GCA? So what! Get rid of them and most people know some parts of America will look more like Somalia than Switzerland.
With arguments like those, it's a wonder we aren't Canada already! When Giffords hears them again, I'm sure her NRA rating will go from a C to an A despite her recent discomfort. That's terrible, and that's what youse guys sound like to the millions of non gun owning voters...
The slope is slippery. If every tragedy is a reason for more gun control, then eventually there is nothing left to control.
Thank the deity of your choice for the SA and Heller! It's not perfect, but it's what we got so far. Reasonable restrictions are not infringements. Some restrictions are off the table, but not all of them. Time will tell?
You're just enjoying arguing the mindless sheep angle with BS that is not valid. For example, you recommend 10 round Mag limit ? He hit 8 people with his 30+ rounds. what would change with lower capacity but more skill ?
As TAB pointed out a bomb would have been more effective and much easier to obtain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacksWhen Aum gassed the Tokyo subways they injured 800.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subwayas for the Knife attacks in China :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chinese_school_attacksIncidents
[edit] March
Main article: Nanping school massacre
On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng (郑民生)[3] 41, killed eight with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping,[1] Fujian province;[4] The attack was widely reported in Chinese media (called 南平实验小学重大凶杀案),[3] sparking fears of copycat crimes.[4] Following a quick trial, the Minsheng was executed about one month later, on April 28.[1]
[edit] April
Just a few hours after the execution of Zheng Minsheng in neighboring Fujian Province,[5] in Leizhou,[6] Guangdong another knife-wielding man named Chen Kangbing, 33 (陈康炳)[7] at Hongfu Primary School wounded 16 students and a teacher.[4] Chen Kangbing had been a teacher at a different primary school in Leizhou;[7] he was sentenced to death by a court in Zhanjiang in June.[8] On April 29 in Taixing,[1] Jiangsu, 47-year-old Xu Yuyuan went to a kindergarten and stabbed 28 students, two teachers and one security guard;[4] most of the Taixing students were 4 years old.[9] On April 30, Wang Yonglai used a hammer to cause head injury to preschool children in Weifang,[1] Shandong, then used gasoline to commit suicide by self-immolation.[4]
[edit] May
An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010;[1] early reports were removed from the internet in China, for fear that mass coverage of such violence can provoke copycat attacks.[1][10] The attacker later committed suicide at his house; he was the landlord of the school,[11] Shengshui Temple private kindergarten, and had been involved in an ongoing dispute with the school administrator about when the school would move out of the building.[11]
On May 18, 2010 at Hainan Institute of Science and Technology (海南科技职业学院), a vocational college in Haikou, Hainan, more than 10 men[12] charged into a dormitory wielding knives around 2:30 am;[13] after attacking the security guard and disabling security cameras, 9 students were injured, 1 seriously.[13] The local men attacked the dorm in an act of revenge and retaliation against college students following conflict the previous day at an off-campus food stall in which 4 students were injured, for a total of 13.[14]
[edit] June and July
During this period there were no reported attacks as it was the summer holidays for many schools in China.
[edit] August
On 4 August 2010, 26-year-old Fang Jiantang (方建堂) slashed more than 20 children and staff with a 60cm knife, killing 3 children and 1 teacher, at a kindergarten in Zibo, Shandong province. Of the injured, 3 other children and 4 teachers were taken to the hospital. After being caught Fang confessed to the crime; his motive is not yet known.[15]
Your arguments are, obviously, crap.