The fact that the guy had relativly easy acces to guns made it so much worse (or much easier to carry out) than it would be if he had heavily resticted or no access to firearms.
So? Every few months some guy in china stabs more people to death than him, in 1955 Elifasi Msomi killed 15 with a hatchet, should we ban knives and blades because someone might abuse them? Should everyone be forced to use public transportation to eliminate deaths related to automobiles? Or should you concentrate on the root of the problem, which is that he was insane, and he was ignored by everyone that should have helped him?
So let's double down and make it easier. In your example, you'd basically be saying that since it's acceptable to sell knives that kill people, it's acceptable sell knives that can kill MANY people with the same amount of effort. The logic being, I guess, that one is just the same as the other.
Again, why is it necessary to have an assault weapon when a pistol is perfectly legal? On the off-chance you're going to have to shoot 30 people? In what realistic scenario is that even likely? The only scenario it's proven true in has applied to
sociopaths going on killing sprees.I'm all for people having the right to own firearms. That's not what's debatable. What is debatable is what kind of guns people should be allowed to carry. And in all the years I've ever debated gun ownership, not one person has ever been able to offer up a reasonable, society-wide justification for assault weapons. It always comes down to "because I can" "because they're fun" "because the government might try to kill me" or "don't tread on me."
None of those justify possession of an assault weapon IMO, least of all needing to gun down many of your own countrymen or political authorities at a moment's notice.
The same laws that apply to gun stores apply to gun shows
And yet even your own link admits that unlicensed firearms sellers at gun shows do exist, even though "they're the minority." (Which they provide exactly zero substantive evidence to prove.)
Gunshows are self-policing, that's the issue. If the owner of the gunshow doesn't want to make an issue of it, they can let unlicensed firearms sellers do business there if they want. And as the current tone of this thread shows, clearly, gun owners, non-gun owners and gun enthusiats view personal responsibility very differently.