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Originally Posted by TheChief
This combination is the reason why school shooters can rack up such high body counts:
1. He won't care if he isn't 21 so the law won't stop him.
2. The majority of his victims won't carry because of the gun free zone.
3. They also won't carry because they need to be 21 leaving as you said the majority unarmed.
4. The majority being opposed to guns will also not want to carry.
This leaves a perfect pool of young vastly unarmed victims for any shooter and is why school shooting happen.
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Gun-free zones have little or nothing to do with WHY crimes happen. First of all, people who do mass-shootings/school shootings are either suicidal, or mentally unstable, they could care less if students were armed or not they would do it anyways. Obviously someone who wants to die isn't going to care about any law in the book. You could make the capital punishment getting run over with a steam-roller and hes not going to give a @!%#.
Yes, a CCW holder MIGHT help reduce the death count, but its not going to deter a shooter who is crazy and suicidal and wants to die.
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Originally Posted by C-D-P
Sorry, didn't see this earlier.
TH is correct. Some states require more training than others. Some none at all. While some do not even have CCW permits because they feel anyone can carry ccw without it.
This all goes to what I was saying earlier about training. Also, in some states you have open carry laws. Sometimes this is restricted more in different counties. But you get my point.
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I guess this is the main difference between the US and Canada. The provinces have no juristiction over gun control in Canada. All done at the federal level. This is good and bad in some ways.
We can travel accross the country knowing that all the laws on firearms are uniform. So someone can bring their tactical guns anywhere and not be afraid the pistol grip is going to violate some random assualt weapon ban along the way.
The funny thing is if Manitoba or Saskatchewan were allowed to make a assualt weapons ban and impliment them, it would be physically impossible to transport your assualt weapons from B.C. to Quebec for example, because the provincial boundaries go all the way up North (and there are no highways that far North). So lucky for us, this isn't possible.
The bad thing is obviously if one province wants more or less gun control, its not possible. The provinces can do a bit here and there in the role of administering justice. Some have refused to enforce the registration requirements and issue documents quickly to make it easy for gun owners, while some like Ontario frequently do things like delay firearms transfers to inconvience gun owners.
What I notice in the US is that laws differ all over the place. Kind of weird, like some Canadians can actually get CCWs in a few states, but most won't let them. The ridiculous thing is that once you get it in one state, you can use it in some of the ones you were denied from. Gives you a headache after a while.