And again, another shooting... why?

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razelove · Accepted Answer

More guns, less bullets. Not as in magazine capacity or anything stupid like that. Fertilizer prices are high right now, and you have two big chemicals needed, phosphates and nitrates. You need a lot of nitric acid to manufacture modern ammunition.

Doesn't matter how many guns you have, or how large the magazines are if bullets rise in price due to the market rather than direct government intervention. Say you have 5 guns, it is unlikely you will have them all in the same caliber. More likely it is a mix of pistols, rifles, shotguns. 9mm, .45, .22, .223, .308, .30/06, 12 gauge, what have you.

I already shoot one of my long range rifles less because ammo in that caliber was around.25 a round when I started practicing with it, but last time was around 1.50(cheapest I see now is 1.67), For the same price as 2 decades ago, I could only get 1/6 as much ammo. Wages haven't changed that much but bills have, so let's say 1/10 to be realistic.

If it rose to 5 dollars a round, I would be making sure I'm hitting game with every round to make it worth the money. Just some food for thought. All the guns in America will stay regardless of new laws or executive orders. Ammo is expendable and unless it was processed very specifically, has a finite shelf life. Firearms are protected by the constitution, putting taxes on nitric acid for ammo producers is not.

No one really wants to solve gun control because no one is looking at the ammo. You can make a gun, it would suck, but with access to ammo you can do it. Without access to ammo you would be required to make a gun and have access to a percussion cap black powder rifle. They kick like a mule and foul up after very few shots unless you have smokeless powder, which requires nitric acid.

Anyway, talk about gun control only drives up gun and ammo sales. If America was 1/4 armed with 5 or 6 guns per household last month, it's going to be up 2-5% households armed and 1 to 2 guns per household by now. It's what happened when Obama talked about gun control, and when the Brady Bill passed.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Not all but, but some shootings are setups. Not faked but they use MK Ultra to fuck people up, in many cases it starts from birth. Its like this. They orchestrate mass shootings then they use the media they compeltely control to make the big thing, and then have their puppets in political positions of power to try and enact more gun control and slowly conditoin the population to hate guns until they will give them up willingly

IN austraila and new zealand when a shooting happen at a school they just ban all guns no questions asked and because they didn't have a 2nd amendment like we do preventing that they could.

They do this so when they pull shit like covid lockdowns and forced vaccinations the people have not way to stand up against it. Meanwhile they flood the country with violent criminals, and allow criminals to run free giving them slap on the wrists. Remember when antifa was burning down cities? The only thing stopping them from going to peoples homes was 2A.

If you are falling for the scheme you need to wake the fuck up.

Marushka · Accepted Answer

Switzerland has one of the most liberal gun laws in the world. Every adult citizen can basically buy and own a gun and many have guns at home from their mandatory military service. If guns alone are an issue why aren't there as many issues in Switzerland with homicidal (and suicidal) gun violence acts as in the US? Why is their gun homicide rate extremely low?

I'd argue that a big factor in gun violence in stable first world countries is mental health issues. Making people more aware of warning signs of mental problems, decreasing stigma around mental health issues so it's not something people try to hide and making resources and therapy easier accessible and available to anyone in need is a good step in the right direction.

KelleyNice · Accepted Answer

There are so many false flag operations by the USA. Most countries have false flags but the USA is extreme. Such event used to happen twice in a century. Now they are happening every month; more than 100 times as often. No intelligent and logical person believes people are that different from the past. Therefore, the only explanation is they are false flag operations by powerful people in favor of gun control. That is most likely, people high in the government that wish to disarm to disarm the public. Also, the government controls the investigations to make certain that the truth about the false flag is never revealed.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

They allow guns in elementary schools here, concealed carry by staff... never ever had a mass shooting in a school here, cause a shooter would have no clue who is armed.

Maybe the solution is teaching gun safety, how to use guns (sort of like Switzerland) and then giving everyone a gun. Now that they know how to safely use it.

Start young, I started shooting at 8 and understand the dangers. Plus enforce existing laws better, no point in new ones when the current ones are being ignored.

Ultimately need to look at a solution that doesn't involve a simple tool, out law guns and I guarantee you every week we'll see on the news how someone rammed their car into a crowd of a hundred people and killed dozens. Then what, outlaw cars?

normalice · Answer

I don't get the parents, myself. If i had placed my future in my children but because dumbass republicans needer their nra money those kids were murdered, I'd just start killing republican politicians until someone killed me. Republicans don't care until it effects them, so make it effect them. Normalize the families of mass shooting victims shooting Republican politicians and gun regulations would rapidly seem a lot more effective to them.

But I suppose if I had kids I'd have to be a bit softer minded/hearted anyway so maybe I'm considering a sequence of events that assumes an unrealistic origin. Still, though, what's really the point of the second amendment if one can't use it to protect their own children from someone who is trying to murder them? How many degrees of separation is acceptable if it still results in the same dead kid?

Oigit · Answer

When we experience political and social strife mass shootings will become more common. Even if guns where not a common as they are we would see a increase. Because political and social strife do effect people on a mental and emotional level. Both sides of any given debate need to stop protesting, screaming at each other and start having open civil conversations.

People need to disconnect from social media and limit their exposure media that deals with a given issue. Because putting ourselves on a nearly 24/7 drip feed of social and political issues it only increases the the mental and emotional tension within us. Also people need to stop thinking in terms of group and think more in terms of individuals. Because when you start painting all members of a given group with the same brush it only further ratchets up the tension that is already there.

EmbraceThePain · Answer

There are a lot of guns in the US, but I do not think this is the reason for this shooting. If I know the shooting you’re talking about in Buffalo, it seems to suggest that people with malicious intent will find all sorts of ways of doing what they want to do. Now, this doesn’t mean you do not create laws whatsoever, but it does it mean that there comes a point where no amount of laws will create a perfect society and that people will have to accept that people with malicious or criminal intent will always exist. I think it may be hard for many to accept this fact so they try to find a myriad of solutions to create a perfect world, something of a utopia perhaps. I believe we should always strive or try to make improvements wherever we can, but there is a point of diminishing returns or unfruitful returns.

Loveisgirthy · Answer

Too many guns in the wrong hands for sure for sure. This is another result of bullying one kid in highschool based on what was released about the kid that did it. It's the result of cultural and societal problems and people not knowing how to handle other people through life. There's multiple reasons people fall under to get to this point. If we want to fix it, it starts at the roots of reasons why. But we'll probably just see guns taken away at this point because simple actions are the way of old people and they still run everything. It's probably gonna get shitty before anything gets pretty.

Daniela1982 · Answer

If one of the teachers killed would have had a gun there would not have been so many killed. A gun toting teacher could have been inside next to the door. As soon as the perpetrator entered the room they would blow his brains out and end it there. Instead they were all lambs for the slaughter.

BeMuse · Answer

It's pretty obvious if you're not retarded... scene of crime

Soteris · Answer

I mean.. USA has gone from recently achieving 1 mass shooting a day to almost two mass shootings a day. Until someone does something to fix the problems in USA things are just going to continue devolving. As far as mass shootings goes its no longer a rare occurrence in USA but the new normal.

Staximus · Answer

Because these lunatics know they can do whatever they want until the cops get there because A. People are cowards and B. dumb liberals make everybody who carries a gun a social outcast. It's ok to protect our country, money, and piece of shit politicians with guns, but why not our children?

NYCQuestions1976 · Answer

Lack of "residential" mental health facilities and institutions for the mentally unstable, since about the 1990s. The United States allows their mentally unstable to integrate into the general population, where they have the ability to access alcohol, narcotics, and social media, and allows them to live with gullible relatives, live in parks, in foreclosured residences, and in public transportation hubs in large metropolitan areas.

Kiran_Yagami · Answer

Not necessarily not enough guns, but not enough marksmanship. From the looks of the information we have now, the guy crashed his car into a ditch, came out shooting at bystanders, shot at police and fought his way into the school. That means the police actually engaged him before he made it into the school building, but failed to stop him. So either they didn't have sufficient firepower on hand or were unable to deploy it effectively.

John_Doesnt · Answer

Countries with fewer guns have fewer mass shootings. What could the correlation possibly be?

alice55 · Answer

It's not the gun the problem it's the mental health issue of the murderer. It's not laws agains't gun that should be made but making mental health free...

schittywok · Answer

Everybody now do something fucking nuts? Don't keep on doing it... please keep your left tarded nutz out of my perview. Come out here, come to Butt Head. But please don't. Because we know what happens when it does. You bring your idiotic views with you. So, just stay the fuck put. Wallow in your own desires. Do that much for America, and for the fucking world.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

It's not guns, because other countries have guns yet in other countries idiots don't walk in and murder little kids at a elementary school.

America is seriously broken and spiritually lost. Unbelievable.

Paul09 · Answer

Because Murica! All they think about is making money for the army. They really don't care. They give out guns to anyone, even pyschos. No background check? No safety course, no nothing? You don't even have to lock up your guns it the triggers.. zero rules all about profit.

anylolone · Answer

Because you teach boys that words are violence and that they are justified to use violence against it, and also that they have no place in the world nor should have.
So the solution could be more guns, but it wouldn't solve nothing until we solve the YOU problem, the long march through the institutions problem.

SlickRick24 · Answer

Hire veterans to guard the schools, arm the teachers end of story. Schools are so vulnerable because there Is hardly any armed law enforcement there which makes them easy targets. More guns less problems because those guys aren’t going in there if they know they are gonna get shot.

Miristheiss · Answer

Because there are so MANY twisted, evil, awful humans. Millions of guns exist... legal and black market. Guns are NEVER going away. No magic law will stop evil people.

Better_off_here · Answer

because we live in a country that wants us to defend ourselves.
we live in a world where we are angry and fed up with others and mainly we live in a world where want to be famous the media makes all criminals celebs which is what they want to be. ever watch Natural born killers?
that movie says it all about this country.

And again, another shooting... why?

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