http://abcnews.go.com/US/guns-loaded-high-capacity-magazines-found-vegas-shooters/story?id=50228093
Local authorities have found that Stephen Paddock, the suspected shooter in the largest mass shooting in modern history, had a cache of 16 guns in his house, as well as explosives. They tracked the weapons back to a local gun shop, and the owner attests that Paddock passed the background test and that the sale was totally legal.
What does it mean that, even when our broken system works correctly, even when a person has no history of mental illness, they can still take 59 human lives with fully legal weapons. So maybe the answer isn't more regulations (though those would certainly help), but an actual, total ban on guns.
This would not be easy. The second amendment of the US Constitution state that all men have the right to "bear arms". This law was made hundreds of years before the creation of the machine gun, when muskets took several minutes to load. In addition, Americans in that time still had natives attacking them regularly, and just got out of a war. However, I highly doubt that this tragedy will have any effect on gun laws in this country. When nothing changed after 20 1st graders got gunned down at Sandy Hook, and congress did nothing, many lost hope that anything would ever change at all.
I believe this one of the many controversies that take place within the government. Many would like to see this amendment changed but changing one law in the Constitution could also lead to others being changed when needed. However I do agree on your point. If guns were banned events like these wouldn't happen.
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