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Quote by: Praxius  I guess that won't work in this situation since he already died by his own hands and his own gun.
The moment you guys catch one who doesn't kill themselves in the end, perhaps someone might. |
If someone is bent upon suicide, then they can use a gun, a car, a truck, a train, a bomb, etc.. You obviously can't prosecute them. You fail to address the real point that the US doesn't prosecute, to the fullest extent of the law, criminals who use firearms during the commission of a crime. This is the real issue, not the weapon of choice.
When the punishment is severe, swift and certain, it will deter many people. Those it doesn't will find themselves incarcerated for a long, long time, if the government is serious about the prosecution. How many times do I have to write it isn't the firearm, it is the person who uses the firearm, that needs to be prosecuted here. When someone uses a car to run down a bunch of people and kill them, you don't blame the car do you? Of course not, you blame the person. I get so tired of this all.
I understand this guy in Omaha was hell bent upon killing people and going out in a "big way." If he didn't have access to his uncles rifle, he would have found another way to do it. So, the fact that he used a gun to commit his own suicide is irrelevant because he would have probably found another, perhaps even more effective way to kill even more people along with himself, if he didn't have access to the rifle. The rifle has very little to do with the event(mass murder) in this situation. It is mostly about the man and his intent to kill himself and other people.