It's not an either / or problem. Just like taxing and spending. The right seems to try and simplify everything into black and white arguments. Our problems are more complicated than that. And making guns harder to get for people like Holmes is more gun control.
Actually, the private sector has record piles of cash sitting idle, and to the public sector the world's money is pouring in to the extent that they are paying us to borrow their money. Throw in productive capacity sitting idle, and unemployment, and it's hard to imagine a time when we've had more resources at our disposal.
Nah, they could just as easily use explosives. Timothy McVeigh didn't use one. Neither did Ted Kaczynski.
The problem is not you are not making it harder for him, you are making it harder for US!!!!! If he REALLY wants to get one, he will. I'm not willing to jump through 100 hoops to get one.
Right. So don't bother locking your car. If someone wants to steal it, they're going to do it anyway. In fact, why not just streamline the whole mundane process by leaving your keys inside?
Actually the authors of the book Freakonomics point out that locking your house door and locking your car door does not reduce the odds of someone breaking in your home or your car. Thieves steal the cars they WANT, not the cars with the doors unlocked. Same with houses.
Well, then, I'm convinced. You know what to do. Leave the car unlocked and the keys inside. And if they're going to do it anyway, why bother with ineffectual legislation as well? It's all about streamlining the process so that people can then get on with their day.