Why Aurora's Strict Gun Laws Didn't Prevent Shooting?

Guns don"t kill people, people kill people!

No anti-gun law will ever stop crime or violence. People who are going to commit a crime do not use legal registered guns.
We have drunk driving laws, but yet people are still killed by drunk drivers.
We have laws against illegal drugs, but people still use illegal drugs.
We have laws against bank robbing, but banks are still being robbed.
The only way to help prevent gun violence is to allow all law abiding citizens to caryy concealed guns. A criminal will be less likely to commit a crime if they don't know who is armed and who isn't.
When there was a vigilante loose in the New York City Subway System, crime dropped down to next to nothing. When Bernard Getz came forward as the shooter, crime went through the roof again.

Bloomberg says he will not protect you without gun control !

http://freedomoutpost.com/201...

How about Bloomberg give up his armed protection and walk the streets of Harlem at night.

I'd like to see that ! Let his cops go on strike and he can fend for himself....after-all citizens don't need to be armed !

This is what I am talking about !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Current gun laws keep guns from law abiding citizens only.

Guns don't shoot themselves, people shoot guns. All of the gun laws in the world would not stop a person from using a gun as a tool, just like they use a car, hammer, sword, knife, or any other tool they wish to use to kill somebody with. A criminal will not allow a law of any type to stop them from harming people if they so desire to. This is a simple fact of life.

Laws don't impede criminals, they just make the victims easier to victimize.

Laws don't stop abnormal people from doing abnormal things. When that man decided on a plan for his shooting spree, no law would stop him. Laws appear to only work on law abiding people, lawbreakers think that laws are just suggestions. The more laws we seem to put in place, the more crime goes up, at least that's how it seems to me. It starts out a very young age. Remember whenever your parents told you not to do something, and sure enough, that was the one thing you just had to do.

Mentally ill people don't worry about the law

I just dunno!!

Face it. No matter how strict gun laws are, they will NEVER prevent shootings like this. They will never stop criminals from committing crimes. They will never stop evil scumbags from shooting up schoolyards, shopping malls and movie theaters. They will only stop one type of person, a law-abiding citizen from saving his/her own life or the lives of their loved one.

MENTALLY ILL people DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE LAW (it's for others)!!!!!!!!!!!

guns laws are like locks, they only work for the honest guy

Criminals do not obey laws. The killer knew that everyone in the theather would be unarmed.

mexico has gun laws and every crook in mexico got em.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Gun controls don't work, so we need more gun controls. It doesn't follow.

None of the above! - I'm not "undecided," either, because I'm pretty sure I know the answer. He was an honor student majoring in psychology with no criminal record or history of significant mental illness. What about his history should have been a huge red flag?

Literally anyone can snap. We still don't know why he did.

There are no gun laws that can entirely stop violence. The only thing
strict gun laws does is to prevent honest citizens from protecting
themselves. There will always be violence of this kind until all
humans learn to love and respect all mn & women.

No gun laws will ever stop nuts from getting them. Ask a few gang members where they got their guns.

I don't know the solution. Too bad there isn't a way to find evil persons before they do these things. Guns were used but he could have set it on fire if he had no gun.

Gun laws hurt the innocents!

This guy didn't have obeying the law on his mind, obviously. Gun laws only punish the people who are likely to obey them.

There are so many guns in this country now, that a law on the books, similar to most laws, won't deter a maniacal monster from killing, robbing, or rampaging. My heart goes out to the dead and their families, and the wounded and their families.

Just as it is impossible to keep drugs out of an addict, It is impossible to keep guns from a determined killer. Laws may make it more difficult, but someone bent on murder, especially mass murder, will find away.

gun laws will not stop a mentally unbalanced person or a criminal from obtaining a weapon.

Any unbalanced person will find a way to get a gun if they want one.

If someone is going to go out on a shooting rampage no gun laws can stop them. It's in their mind set to do it no matter what!!

I've began to realize that social factors play a bigger role in guns being used responsibly than how you control guns.

It's to do with how the society functions and not what gun laws are in place, because if the society is not functioning accordingly than the laws will mean nothing.


High gun control: Germany, Japan - low rates of firearm homicide
Low gun control: Switzerland and Norway - low rates of firearm homicide
Low gun control: USA - high rates of firearm homicide.

These kinds of shootouts happen because yes, we have maniacs living in our societies too. And we can keep pointing fingers and playing the blame game, but in reality, the only one we have to blame are the people who snapped and decided to commit these horrible crimes. But if they happen often, we ought to look into the social factors behind these actions in order to see how we can better society and lessen this kind violence. But sometimes, people are gonna go insane, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you're reading this message from your laptop while sitting comfortably at home, at least you know that you're living much safer than most of the world is at the moment.

I don't know where you got your data but the U.S. does not have low gun control!

In comparison to Germany and Japan and most of the world, it does have low gun control. It's easier to get guns in US than most places, for both civilians and criminals. Many states allow you to carry, some states are stricter, but overall it's quite easy to get the guns across state boarders.

Ocala Florida: Low gun control - two criminals in an internet cafe stopped by an armed 71 year old carrying legally!

Aurora Colorado: High gun control - one criminal free to cause a mass murder because he knew nobody could legally return fire!

US doesn't really have a state with high gun control to the same extent that Germany or Japan does, considering criminals can still carry across state boarders.

Which is why gun control in the US just doesn't work.

The very point why citizens should be legally armed.

1938, Adolph Hitler takes all the guns away from German citizens. Guess what happened next.

Restricting and outlawing guns WILL NOT deter violence.

It is a choice made by a human being to commit crime... PERIOD...

Tougher laws never prevent crime. If people are evil, or mentally I'll, or have no respect for their fellow man, they will break the law no matter how strict the law is. Take away guns, they use knives, take away knives they use bombs or clubs, take away those... They will find something else to use as a weapon.

What I wanna know is who sold "anyone" *(6000 rounds of ammunition) without even blinking? *(This blood is on your hands!)

He probably bought it from different places and over a long period of time, but if not I completely agree with you

Now I heard he ordered the rounds over the Internet,....(sad!)