Virtually every mass shooting has occurred in a "gun-free zone", including this one. These are areas where legal permit holders cannot legally carry. Why don't these happen where people can legally carry, especially when that virtually always means there are MORE guns in the vicinity?
The reality is that guns aren't going anywhere, so given that, why do the major crimes occur in areas where the good people are disarmed?
Remember that the US government (under Obama) were arming the cartels with machine guns - some of which have been confirmed to have killed US citizens and Border Patrol agents (this was the Fast And Furious operation). Criminals will always get guns - gangs in the UK have plenty - so even if you disarmed every citizen, criminals would still have them. And bombs aren't very difficult to make, so suicidal people would likely kill with bombs or vehicles.
No one ever wants to talk about realistic solutions, they just want to take away guns. But the Constitution is not going to make that very easy.
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First we need to enforce the laws that already exist.
Then get rid of “Gun free zones”. Criminals don’t obey the “Gun free zones” anyway Because they are criminals. Its just fish in a barrel. Only law abiding citizens obey the law. A criminal is less likely to shoot people if they know there is a strong possibility that someone will shoot back at them.
Discharging a firearm in public is a crime. Killing somebody is a crime. But yet they still do it. Because they are criminals. Compare states with strong gun laws vs states that have very loose gun laws. There is easily a lot more gun issues in the states that have the strongest laws because, criminals don’t obey the law.
In my country before I was born around the time of the Dunblane massacre a man walked into a primary school assembly armed with a flamethrower. Over in England and the rest of Europe it seems anyone with a lorry license can committ mass murder.
What I see as a foreigner living in America is that crime is so out of control that gun ownership is a requirement. The real problem I see in the US is its mental health crisis and over medication of antidepressants. The BBC a few years ago did a documentary that linked mass shootings and antidepressants.
Uhn, yeah! Automatic rifles with graduation and shotguns at banks. MURICA!
Frankly, if Americans don't get a handle on their gun fanatics and implement gun controls, I'm just gonna have to settle in with popcorn to watch 'em all shoot each other.
Sucks, cause there's a good number of reasonable and good Americans I would want to live. But it's like getting emotionally attached to pigs on the slaughter line.
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Keep making gun free zones… crazy people love soft targets. There are naturally places that never have problems with crazed gunmen. Gun ranges, police stations, and police bars. Crazed gunmen know they wouldn’t stand a chance at these places, they want to go to the places where No one else has a gun. I carry a gun everyday and never had a problem with that gun spontaneously start shooting people, there needs to be a mentally I’ll person for that gun to cause a problem. Let’s talk about mental illness.
if I was ever someplace where an active shooter was to show up, I would shut him down quickly. Because regardless what you believe mass shooters are ALWAYS stopped by good guys with a gun.It's the challenge of dealing with corrupt, poorly trained humans. The result of this debate/issue is certain... guns will have to be restricted as well as magazines. This is part of the takeover of the country and it's certain as a trickle of water taking down a barn.
But resistance is required.
This is all emotionally damaged people, not guns. We know that.
But noone here is arguing the restriction of RPG's, nuclear bombs, attack drones (with laser beams, mchine guns, and bombs)... which a well armed militia would have these days.
That said, I support peoples right to have guns, but restrictions need apply. Blech... I don't like myself saying that.
The underlying problem is the training of society, but noone is talking about that.. and that is what needs discussed.
I once thought of going to school to shoot a bully that hurt my feelings. I realized my dad would beat my A$$ and decided to just take the pain. You see the solution to most issues...Who the Hell are you to accuse me of being crazy because I may want fewer gun restrictions? What a biased question.
Safe spaces are an illusion. Always have been.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” - Benjamin Franklin
We have a mental health crisis. Please keep in mind that massacres of this nature are relatively new in our nations history with many starting in the 80s there has been a shift in morality and mental health.
The weapons are inanimate objects that do nothing when left alone. We can’t blame objects for poor behavior.
I own firearms but at the same time I am a mentally healthy man whose religious beliefs forbid murder unless it’s in self defense. If I ever shot someone it would be traumatizing.Guns will always be accessible. Bad guys will either steal them or buy them off the black market. Remember. Criminals do not obey gun laws. Gun laws only restrict lawful self defense. And lefties will never disarm Americans, which could only be done by force. If they try, we will shoot them. Can you say 'Triple Tap'
Like it or not as a result of decades of very bad cultural leadership created an unprecedented mental health crisis. For everyone nut who kills others there are hundreds if not thousands who kill themselfs.
As a culture thanks to "modern" cultural values like tolerance ("don't judge me") and isolation we are no longer dealing with problems anymore. Those problems as a result just get out of control.I could make a 12 gauge shotgun out of a couple pieces of black steel pipe, a pipe cap, a screw, a 2x4, and a roll of duck tape that would splatter the small amount of brains you do have, out of the back of your skull… What’s next on the communist agenda, removal of all indoor plumbing? You commies really are stupid.
Weird how the shooter didn't understand that was a gun free zone. Surely more gun laws will change this.
Also weird how it was a black male shooter, the demographic that is overwhelmingly more prone to committing violent crime, who was targeting a specific person, but that was conveniently left out.
MrOracle nailed it. The states that allow concealed or overt carry have better records. The bad guys will always find a way to get a gun illegally if they want to get a gun. Keeping them out of the hands of honest, responsible residents who carry them for self-defense is a sure sign that the area will be one of the next targets.
Guns don't kill people - people kill people. Rather basic, huh?
Well, contrary to what conservatives keep asserting the more guns that are in circulation in the country, the less safe it's going to be. Conversely, however, having no guns is not exactly safe either since a certain number of people will always have guns and that shouldn't have them.
It that what you think then look a the knifing statistics for the major cities over here in the UK, if Firearms are not available those who are are going to 'spree kill' they will find another weapon be that a knife, crossbow, screwdriver, hammer, tyre iron, car, suv, truck, the list is endless. All it really takes is someone to have the will to do the act.
If I put it was harder and longer to be able to get your gun license like a year. If only they did background checks. If only they made a law where you have to put trigger licks, and keep it locked up in safe.. there must be away. Oh wait murican! Where they make money off sick people, guns, and dead people.
You’d better be worried odd- your hero Biden is going to make your wife take in illegal MS-13 gangbangers and you being unarmed won’t be able to protect her. Actually, I don’t think you would protect her even if you were armed.
as if criminals submit to laws. criminals get guns regardless of laws so no excuse to make laws. also if MORE people had guns they can stop shooters instead of waiting helpless for cops to travel to a crime scene
Wrong. I prefer Robert A. Heinlein approach: "And armed society is a polite society."
With every law-abiding citizen armed, criminals, mass murderers, gang members wouldn't stand a chance getting away with the laughably easy in & out of jail stuff they do.
"We’ll never have a safe space in America if guns are easily accessible".
You make this statement as if it's true. Can I assume you have some kind of proof of this? I think the answer is no.
Bad take on crime prevention. Simply having access to a means doesn't cause the problem. You want less homicides? Increase the financial stability of the households in the nation's worst neighborhoods.
Guns are but a means. Tackle the motive.Why don’t we have armed officers at the schools? I know you don’t want to arm the teachers but we do need to protect our students. Think about this we protect banks more then we protect our youth why is that?
Leftoids are really stupid enough to buy that if you just make a problem illegal, it'll just poof out of existence never to come back.
Nowhere is safe until better gun laws and restrictions.
When most of these tragedies are happening with LEGAL guns you know there's a problem with the law.
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