I predicted this...

[Weltall]

Banning guns in America would accomplish everything that banning alcohol did ninety years ago: Taking the firearms industry out of the hands of legal corporations and handing it on a silver platter over to underground criminal organizations. Guns are already so massively proliferate in America. Banning sales and possession now would serve to prevent the law-abiding from owning them, but it would do little to harm the black market arms trafficking that exists so profligately. It's as meaningless as the Brady laws, which serve mostly to prevent accidental firearms injuries. The Brady laws do nothing to stop a thug or gang-banger from buying a Glock on the cheap from some alleyway dealer, avoiding all those pesky background checks and waiting periods.

Here's the brutal truth of being pro gun: unlike the anti-gun side, that can simplistically claim that society will be so much better and more peaceful without those nasty guns, the pro gun side has to accept the sad fact that as a consequence of what we advocate, people will die. There's no ducking that. I'm not any happier about it than anybody here. But the inverse fact is that removing the most effective means of self-defense from the citizenry at large makes them easy victims of the sort of criminals and mental defectives like this guy who are already going to disregard any regulatory system put in place. If anything, the anti-gun crowd is the enabler of such tragedies, the cyclical result of using every gun-related incident as a soapbox opportunity.