"It's people who kill, not guns," go the voices in support of Americans' inalienable right to bear arms. They may have a point but, in the wake of Columbine, it simply beggars belief that an uncommunicative loner whose creative writing was described as "like something out of a nightmare...with grotesque, twisted violence" could walk into a shop and, with only a few cursory background checks - ever heard of a psychpathic killer who didn't come from a normal family? - buy a deadly weapon with as much ease as he could have obtained credit for a washing machine.
Massacres will occur as long as people who want to kill have easy access to guns. Otherwise the only thing that will ever change is the names of the dead.
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