Quote: Brad Fittler Fan Club "But 12 people have lost their lives at the hands of a gunman with a licensed weapon. If this bloke didn't have a legally held gun at his disposal would this have happened?? Who knows?'"
Firstly, there still seems to be some confusion as to whether he held a license or not but either way if he did not have access to a firearm I hardly think he would have just sat down and said "oh well, I'd better give the killing a miss then". I'm sorry if that sounds a bit flippant but I'm sure you get my point.
Additional tightening of the laws following Hungerford didn't prevent Dunblane and further measures did not prevent this tragedy. He could just have easily got in his taxi and driven around mowing down pedestrians - do we then ban cars?