I've addressed this many times... You cannot legislate human behavior, and you also cannot keep mentally unstable people from killing people. Whether it's a gun, knife, car, or club, humans kill humans. Fact of life. We passed laws against it, but darn it... People STILL keep killing other people. So...
What logic do these people use to even propose that more strict laws, or bans, or confiscation will stop the mentally unstable from killing people?
Rape laws, have never prevented one single rape. There are laws against theft, but people continue to steal. There are laws against murder, but alas... People are still killing each other.
I can only assume that the people coming up with these proposed bans, and anti-gun laws sit around thinking "How can I punish society for these crimes? I have to do something, but I am too stupid to just realize the simple fact that, people kill people, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it."
As horrible as these mass killings are, the writer totally misses the point of what he is writing about, and assumes that, if guns were removed from the equation, no more killings would occur, and these mental defectives would just sit at home, harmless... This is a very stupid assumption on his part.
One has to look no further than human history, at other mass killings before the firearm was even invented, or at other mass murderers that did not use firearms. Jack the ripper for one. Jeffery Dahmer, Ray and Faye Copeland, Dean Corll, Angelo Buono, Jr, Jerry Brudos, Debbie Brown, William Bonin, Jim Jones, Ted Bundy, the 911 terrorists... Here's a link to photos and stories:
http://crime.about.com/od/serial/ig/serialkillerphotos/
Note, most all of these killers did NOT use firearms, but media and the writer fails to recognize that fact, and only sees the problem as the gun. Agreed, he is a dumbass. Mental defective murderers will use any means at their disposal in order to kill people. It is their desire to kill people, and that is what this guy fails to understand. To believe that guns are the problem in today's society is the problem. Failure to recognize mental propensity for violence, by whatever means available. Guns are easy, but not the preferred method by most serial killers... Why? Because these people get their jollies from killing up close and personal, and a firearm does not allow them to do that. It takes the "fun" out of their pleasure. Do they sometimes use firearms? Yes, they do. But they have also used their bare hands, cars, jet planes, poisoned kool aid, knives, clubs, and any other weapon they can come up with. Legislating guns will do nothing but prepare a disarmed populace for whatever the Government has in mind, and leave them at the mercy of criminals.
I also firmly believe that Governments, unchecked by an armed populace, have killed more people in human history than all criminals and mental defectives put together. So... Which is more dangerous? The most dangerous thing to freedom and liberty is an unarmed populace. The asshat that wrote that article proves that the pen is more dangerous than the gun. Sheep will read, and believe his writings. That, is dangerous.