Thank you Diane Feinstein

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82. Lets suppose you have a car that doesnt start because it needs a new...

starter.

While you have enough money to get a new starter you want a new car preferably a very expensive luxury sedan. Unfortunately you don’t have a job and since you live in a rural area you need a car to travel to apply for jobs. What do you do?

Obviously you first get the starter replaced. You then have the ability to look for a job and the means to get to work once you do. Of course you are not satisfied but at least you have taken some action to address your immediate problem. Somewhere down the line you may be able to purchase your dream car and make the payments on it.

The problem we have today is school shootings. Obviously at some time in the future we may be able to enact gun laws similar to those in Great Britain. However it makes good sense to take measures that would reduce the number of such tragedies now.

Realistically we may never be able to enact draconian gun control but we can save lives while we try.

In passing I am not a strong gun control advocate by any means but I do respect the views of those who are.

Banning evil looking assault style rifles or all semi-automatic rifles would not stop school shootings. Handguns and shotguns have been used in the past by those individuals who commit mass shootings. Even if every firearm in our nation was banned and successfully confiscated (unlikely at the best) those with severe mental issues would use explosives or drive vehicles into a crowd.

Bath School disaster

The Bath School disaster, sometimes known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, which killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and six adults and injured at least 58 other people.[Note 1] Kehoe killed his wife and firebombed his farm, then detonated an explosion in the Bath Consolidated School before committing suicide by detonating a final device in his truck.

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Kehoe murdered his wife Nellie sometime between May 16 and the morning of May 18, 1927; she had just been discharged from the hospital with an undefined illness. He then detonated various incendiary devices on his homestead on the morning of May 18 at about 8:45 a.m., causing the house and other farm buildings to be destroyed by the explosives' blasts and subsequent fires.

Almost simultaneously, an explosion devastated the north wing of the Bath Consolidated School building, killing 36 schoolchildren and two teachers. Kehoe had used a timed detonator to ignite hundreds of pounds of dynamite and incendiary pyrotol, which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers began working at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and used a rifle to detonate dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself, the school superintendent, and several others nearby, as well as injuring more bystanders. During rescue efforts at the school, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol connected to a timing device set to detonate at the same time as the first explosions; the material was hidden throughout the basement of the south wing. Kehoe had apparently intended to blow up and destroy the entire school.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster