Its definitively possible that stricter gun laws could have prevented this guy from getting guns. From the little i know about this incident it looks as if the guy wasn't some career criminal with lots of connections to black market shit. He got a hold of some nerve gas but he didn't have rpgs or anything
Though as previous posters pointed out already even though these incidents are an absolute tragedy this stuff hardly ever happens and the likely hood of this happening to you is slim to non.
If you make something illegal you create a black market for it which inherently comes with crime/violence(see war on drugs)... i think its pretty easy to make an argument that while maybe being able to prevent more tragedy's like this, a lot more violence would occur every year if you made a majority of guns illegal because of the black market. I guess it depends on how strict of gun control you implement.
There might real world examples of why stricter gun control is good but i would argue that preventing stuff like this isn't a good enough reason. for the record i don't own a gun or have a fascination with them.
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