No more!!! It's time for the gun-lovers of America to find a new hobby. Remove the firearms! Make the penalties strong enough to enforce it!!!
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"When, in God's name, do we stand up to the gun lobbyists?"
And if you are idiotic enough that you believe the second Amendment guarantees gun ownership, you better go back to school. It guarantees no such thing!!!
Enough is enough is enough!
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We're up to 22 dead currently; two teachers, nineteen children and the shooter's grandmother.
DON'T ANYONE DARE CLAIM THAT THERE IS ANY REASON TO OWN GUNS OVER THESE LIVES!!!
14 students dead and 1 teacher. At what point do we finally outlaw the possession of firearms? How many more of these mass shootings need to happen?
In nearly all states, schools are "gun-free zones", meaning people cannot carry to defend themselves, and if they do, they will almost certainly go to prison when caught.
Nearly all mass shootings occur in gun-free zones. Ever wondered why that is?
Are you aware of the state of public schools in the US? Where students intimidate and disobey teachers routinely, where kids are routinely bullied, and staff allows it to continue even with multiple reports and parental involvement? Where woke politics is seen as the only kind of education that matters: framing absolutely everything as oppressors and victims? Where overcrowding is the norm, as are drinking and drugs?
Do you understand what 2 years of COVID lockdowns have done to the mental health of lots of people, especially teens?
Folks have been trying to tell everyone what those lockdowns were going to bring since they were first implemented ("2 weeks to slow the spread") in early 2020. You've got kids who have lost 2 years of socialization, some stuck in abusive home situations, and unable to cope with the pressure.
If guns weren't available, you'd see bombs or people running down kids with cars (which has also happened, but gets very little press because it doesn't advance the narrative).
The Left has made all of these problems much worse, and that's not an accident. They want reasons to expand government power over the people, and they are happy to exploit each one - and equally as happy to bury any incidents that go against their narrative.
Here in California, DAs are declining to prosecute most crimes, ESPECIALLY against career criminals. They crimes they choose to prosecute are when a middle class person with no criminal background breaks a law, often with no victim or damage - and especially if they are white and male. Those people have the book thrown at them.
In my town, we had a double murder last year - committed by a person who was out on $5000 bail on a different murder charge. There's another couple in town who have been "observed" shoplifting at least 20 times, most on video and many by employees, but the police don't even show up because the DA won't charge them.
That's the insanity that creates the context of this. It's what infuriates the vast majority of people, who are responsible and law-abiding.
No law will ever stop mass murder. No law will eliminate guns in the US - there are FAR too many, and criminals are perfectly willing to kill police to get them, so theft and burglary is a given, as is smuggling them in. If we can't prevent literally tons of Fentynol from being smuggled in, you won't stop guns either, and Fentynol kills far more people in the US than guns.
Muskets were never assault rifles and assault rifles are not the next evolution. Rapid fire guns have been around for almost 170 years. There is no art or skill needed to use a rapid fire gun 🤷♂️.
They’re not rapid fire they are semi automatic and yes muskets were assault rifles once. You claim you’re a gun enthusiast but you know nothing about them
Semi automatic is rapid fire and no lol muskets are absolutely not assault rifles. Muskets are single fire and have no magazine. I literally am an enthusiast and fully understand the definitions here son.
I dotn live in the USA but will give my opinion as I heard the news about taht tragic incident. Knowing about all this school mass shottings in the past of different universities, schools in the USA and also hearing that most of the shooters were teenagers who as they grew up they were abused, bullied and had a difficult upbringing and they had difficult personalities, and strange behavior. I believe that taking care of your mental health is so important especially to everyone. Because a sane person with no mental issues and who knows to differentiate between right or wrong will never committ these attrocities. These young shooters perhaps never had the chance to be taken care of and deal with their mental issues before andsince they have these mental issues, and being so fragile mentally, , for them the way we tret them or what we say about them will amke them think we are criticize them or not, las they take everything by heart and maybe is just a joke but for them could be a big deal becausel mentally they are not ok they can't differentiate if something said to them is just a joke or a big thing and they take it seriously. These kids need to be treated phsychologically ASAP, cause guns in the wrong hands are weapons of mass destruction. It is nott just about gun control and the problem is solved. Gun control is for sure important, such as who really owns guns and for what purpose they want to have guns if iis not only for self protection and being responsible of who handles those guns. I mean for me the only person who has the right to own guns and have guns for protection must any person of legal age, responsible and mentally sane who works to protect people and citizens (police forces, security guards, marshalls, military, among many other people who work in the protection field who requires to own guns, of course the exception here is when a person who works in the protection field is not mentally right or have personal problems), other than that no other person needs to own guns. I mean how teenagers have access to guns and where do they get it from, black market Im sure. That is another problem governments need to fix, get rid of illegal guns io the streets, get rid of the guns black market business, where regular citizens have an easy access to buy guns. This is my opinion.
I agree with everything you said. Its heartbreaking. Plus i personally feel there are other ways to try to defend yourself than the need for a gun. The reasons people claim to need a gun is a weak excuse to kill in my opinion... and yea many won’t respect what i said, but again, its my opinion.
And i dont even care what political party a person is. I’m not in either major party. But i know gun owners in both of the main parties. I still stand by what i said
I've defended my life twice with a firearm without ever shooting them. They saved me from being killed twice. If a 6'6 man comes at you on the street with a giant butcher knife how are you going to defend yourself? I'm just saying, they earned the name "the great equalizer" for a reason. Most encounters happen within 7 yards. You have seconds to respond and imho a good DAO revolver is the best bet. Again thats me and to each their own. But I feel my personal choice of defense is my business and no one else's unless they want to personally pay for me to have 24/7 armed security for protection. After all the gun grabber politicians all do so they need to practice what they preach.
Reading these comments has absolutely blown my mind. I am shook!
Those saying not to ban the guns, I own guns, I use them responsibility, I don’t misuse them, I’m not giving mine up, yadda yadda.
So guns are that important to you, to your life, that to save innocent children's lives, you wouldn’t give them up?
What if these innocent children were your own children? Family members etc. that got killed and n these attacks, would you then have a different opinion?
Just because you yourself use a gun, so you say, safety, clearly SO many are not, and something NEEDS to change!
Using a gun on anyone is not ok, even to protect yourself! Harming anyone in anyway is not ok.
Any use of any type of weapon is not ok! Be it guns, knives, machetes, etc. no one should be using weapons of any sort to harm or hurt others! So the need to stop selling them and people being able to get their hands on them needs to stop!!!
And anyone that feels it’s ok needs to seek help, needs to find out mentally why they feel it’s ok to use these weapons and their thinking needs to change. And until it does they are not safe people!!!
These comments and posts truly made me both sad and mad. I do not even know what or why you people think this way. We’re you taught by your parents? Is it the area you were brought up in? Whatever it is, I can only feel sorry for you. But you need real help.
Stories like this make it easy to get emotional. Then feel like we have the moral high ground. This is a sensational fact that happened. But lets look at other facts and not just one. It is easy to get emotional. It takes more effort to reason on the matter. This --> "DON'T ANYONE DARE CLAIM THAT THERE IS ANY REASON TO OWN GUNS OVER THESE LIVES!!! " Is highly emotional and super charged with the "High moral ground" stance so anyone who debates this is automatically evil. This is a common tactic and defiantly worth debating. People should not just shut up and take this one comment as the new law and truth. All things should be open to debate. This is a heated debate that goes back many generations. I think if we look at the people who did this it would highlight the real problem. We are looking only at the symptom of their troubles. I lived among many gun toters and I can tell you that violence is not an issue. And violence is cut short because perpetrators know that their having a gun does not give them advantage over others. The power advantage of holding a gun can only be imagined if the intended does not posses the same. Only with another gun was the shooter able to be taken down. So the gun itself is not to blame. It is only a tool to be used how the wielder wishes. Often this wish is to respectfully control diseased or out of control wildlife. I have been in situations where this was a happy tool to have.
Always be ready and expect viewpoints of others who disagree with you when you stamp your food and claim the high moral ground. Be willing to accept that you may not be in the right. Or that there may not even be a right.
Like I always say if you don't like the second Amendment then by all means Canada isn't that far away. If you feel like swimming there's the UK too. Feel free to go. My grandparents didn't spill blood for this country to watch our civil rights be stripped. I see a lot of people in this comment section with pure ignorance. A dude comes at you with a weapon of any sort and you aren't strong enough you are dead or raped or both as a good example. A firearm as I have stated NUMEROUS times has save my life TWICE. I didn't "use it to kill" actually I simply brandished it in both cases and they ran. If I just wanted to kill I would have pulled the bang switch both times.
It's pure ignorance being spouted out of people's mouths and they know they can't actually defend their point and they know if they've no idea what it's like to be face to face with stuff like that. If YOU want to hire personal armed guards to protect me like these politicians on your own dime, feel free. The fact you bring up the gun lobbyists is also hilarious. A lot of private citizens have won court cases, taking them to the supreme court and overturning unconstitutional laws.
I notice not once do you ever talk about fixing our broken healthcare system which by the way includes MENTAL HEALTH. No one brings it up, not ever. When are we going to get rid of the gangs? When are we going to get rid of the cartels? Right you can't. We got 100 million strong gun owners in this nation. If you think we're giving em up you're smoking something. If you think we'll PEACEFULLY comply you're under too many drugs to count. Many gun owners have guns in places you'll never find, not ever. The nation is vase and every patch of dirt has something under it you won't believe. 1 mile away, 1,000 miles away, you'll never get em all. Nor will you stop the black market if they did somehow ban guns. You'd think you would have learned after Prohibition and the War on Drugs, NOPE. Some people NEVER learn.
When are people going quit being reactionary and using these heinous tragedies just to support their own political agendas?
You are NEVER going to accomplish anything by just blurting out childish leftist ideas such as “oh we should just ban firearms”. This is issue is much more complicated than stupid ass simplistic knee jerk reactions. At 56 you should god damn understand that but I guess some people never grow up.
It’s funny how the left goes off on gun control in this incident but just last week they were fixated on racism with the buffalo shooting. It’s whatever angle they can get to use to their own advantage.
This is a much deeper problem that’s going on in society. Personally I think the “one up” culture we live in where people are constantly being reminded vía social media (and media in general) that they are not good and successful enough (looks, money, significant others, etc.) is a extremely dangerous and toxic influence for troubled young men.
I am open to the idea of red flag laws (as long as they don’t get abused). Also open to special laws where young adults 18-20 need to get special training and psych evaluations before buying rifles. I am open to enhanced security at schools. I am also open to special programs to identify and treat at risk teenagers and young adults.
But I am not open to blaming the NRA for everything and being a AOCish morón. These sick people will find ways to harm others with or without guns (bombs, vehicular suicide, illegally obtaining guns). It’s more complicated than stupid ass over reaching gun control.
You have no idea. They’re actually trying to remove the weapons from “WE THE PEOPLE” so that they can enforce government control.
It’s a plan that been going on since 2009. It’s all a plan. Fake wars, fake presidents, the leftists are all BEYOND BRAINWASHED. You cannot help them anymore.
I’m a conspiracy theorist and know more than you’d imagine. If I tell them some bit of info. They’ll call me crazy say I’m mentally ill, they say I need to go back to school and such. SO I GAVE UP ON THE BOTS 🤖 A LONG TIME AGO.
You may feel differently when/if somebody ever forces themselves into your home, rapes and kills your wife and kids and all the while forcing you to watch as they do it. In a situation like that, I am sure you will wish you had a gun.
The issue is not of guns, but as to the laws that allow people to have them. There needs to be tougher gun laws, restrictions and mental capacity evaluations before somebody is allowed to have them.
The thing nobody seems to want to acknowledge, is that if you outlaw guns outright, it will *not* stop criminals from having them, which puts the law abiding citizen at extreme risk. It turns the citizen in to victims instead of people capable of defending themselves.
The other question nobody wants to face, is why are teachers and school staff not arming themselves? In a world where we have people losing their minds and killing children, why are we not prepared to defend them?
I'm on your side about the problem, I am just not on your side on how we handle it.
"Make the penalties strong enough to enforce it!!!"
It was never a question of penalties. It's a question of man power and logistics. Do you have the will and the man power to go door to door collecting guns? The answer has always been "no". And do gun owners have the lack of will to not resist you, which has also been a "no". If you go door to door attempting to collect guns it'll be a warzone. If that's what you want, then come and take it.
"When, in God's name, do we stand up to the gun lobbyists?"
Oh please, everyone knows you leftists don't believe in God. In fact, you vehemently hate Christianity in its entirety. Spare me your false faith based rhetoric.
"And if you are idiotic enough that you believe the second Amendment guarantees gun ownership, you better go back to school. It guarantees no such thing!!!"
The supreme court disagrees and they have disagreed with you more than once. It seems it is you who needs to go back to school.
"DON'T ANYONE DARE CLAIM THAT THERE IS ANY REASON TO OWN GUNS OVER THESE LIVES!!!"
False equivalence. You can't even demonstrate that more gun laws mean less crime, because the states and cities with the largest rates of gun violence have the strictest gun control laws. Also, there is no exchange of lives for guns. No one asks, "Alright, all you need to own this AR15 is to cough up 14 elementary school kids and one grandma." I didn't have to off a single school kid to buy one of my many guns. Trying to frame the argument as such only makes you look foolish.
These Marvel-brained reddit-tards are cognitively defective. They are mentally incapable of understanding the gun violence issue and its root causes. They will only ever regurgitate emotional talking points that offer more problems and no solutions.
We’re mortals. People DIE and GET KILLED all the time. And there ain’t no guns involved.
You think taking away GUNNS is a good thing? You’re delusional.
You have any idea how many people saved their own lives and protected family and strangers because they had a GUN in their hands?
you're AN IDIOT. Its sounds to me like you’re one of those paid actors or your in the same agenda of the one-eyed freaks. EITHER WAY. you're A SELL OUT!
ANY OF THOSE WHO BEEN INTO CONSPIRACY THEORIES SINCE WAYY BACK! B careful around people like this! Theyre bots 🤖 or their actors!
She is a fake person , but account is legit. I can't believe she has a degree when she spouts out complete stupid nonsense. Maybe she let a professor in her ass for a degree , I don't know. Only way I can see her graduating college with a degree. Totally retarded reasoning with no common sense at all.
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My family are hunters and responsible firearm owners if you are insisting that decent responsible people who already own guns should have their rights to own those guns taken away because of other people who decide to kill people with guns, then you are full of shit and hell bent on punishing innocent people and don't even try to say that my family and I shouldn't hunt animals either, it's my right as a native American and part of my protected culture to hunt. My family has never hurt anyone with a gun and everyone is trained to handle these firearms and they're kept in gun safes with lock codes. After this tragedy in Texas everyone is shaken and grief stricken but I don't think a knee jerk reaction of banning all firearms in America is the answer. The reality of this is that if you do that people will just find other ways to murder each other if they are intent on it.
Would you say the UK has unreasonable gun control levels? I ask, because hunters and farmers there can own appropriate firearms with not much difficulty.
@goaded well yes because guns are not JUST for hunting. Nor are they the reason we in the USA have the second amendment.
@possumpi26 the issue is we do need to socialize healthcare. Weather Conservatives want to admit it or not. We need to address the issues of mental health and get people the help they need an subsidize it if we must. At the same time the left needs to accept that guns aren't the cause of mass shootings and that it's mental health and ALSO it will be a cold day in hell before gun owners give up their guns willingly. Lastly I will say guns are for multiple things and hunting is one. However it's not the reason we own them in the USA. Most state constitutions specify militia and or self protection of self, property, family, etc. I personally don't hunt. I carry guns to protect me and mine.
@t-8900 - have you ever read the second amendment? Do you comprehend even a quarter of what these words mean >>> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. <<<<<<<<< ? I am quite serious because so many Americans quote the second amendment and yet taken in the literal meaning none of them should own guns.
@APrettyLittleLady87 incorrect I DO know what it means. There are some important parts you might not grasp. the "," being very important in the language for one. And also do you understand what a militia is? Do you also understand that time and again the Second Amendment sides with those who site the second amendment and why? By my estimation... probably not...
@t-8900 ROFL. I'm military from a military family that goes back to, at least, the Napoleonic Wars. Have any of your relatives ever once done anything useful? I know what militia means far more than you ever will & that losers in their mother's basements don't qualify. ...
And thank you for proving that you don't know anything about the 2nd Amendment in its literal sense. ROFL. Pathetic.
@t-8900 The supreme court, imbecile, is irrelevant. Those are only in recent times and as relevant to the exact meaning of the 2nd Amendment as dog shit.
@t-8900 I see you are stupid. Modern day court cases don't mean dog shit in relation to the 2nd Amendment in its exact meaning. Thank you for proving you're a moron.
@APrettyLittleLady87 hilarious you would even talk about what my family has done for this country. Idc what your family did in terms of you forming your opinion. You know more about the laws than Supreme Court Judges? Now THAT is bloody hilarious. The only thing "proven" here is: "my great great great grand daddy did something. Therefore I can form an opinion that is actually somehow a fact. I can hold up someone else's feats and ride on their coattails my whole life and say I know something." lmfao what a clown!
@t-8900 You don't comprehend much of anything, do you? I said I am military. From a military family. It's a lot more than my great-great-great granddaddy did something. I was overseas while you were pissing your panties. My father was overseas while your pa was fucking the local prostitutes. My grandfather was overseas in the wars while your grandpa was buffing some guy's boots.
You obviously comprehend little. Probably less than 5%. As I said supreme court modern day decisions don't matter to the original writing of the 2nd Amendment... I don't like offending people with obvious mental disabilities but that's the only explanation for your low IQ.
@APrettyLittleLady87 ah okay so you don't respect veterans I guess. But for the sake of Argument PROVE you are a service member or f*ck right on off with your stolen valor :)
@APrettyLittleLady87 sh*t I mean for all I know you're one of the sweaty dudes on here with a troll lvl 1 account at that. This is pathetic and you've dodged so much sh*t and ASSumed so much which is incorrect about me and MY military family. But please continue with your BS. :D
@crmoore "Would you say gun control stops mass shootings, there, @goaded?"
Obviously not entirely. Plymouth was the first one since 2018 (when nobody was killed), which was the first one since 2010, there was one in 2009 in Northern Ireland by the IRA, and that's all four this century in a country with 1/5th the population of the US. A total of 20 deaths this century.
Just counting mass shootings with 10 or more fatailities, the US has had 20 in the same time period, killing 408.
@t-8900 "... peaceable citizens...". So he thought there was a class of citizens who should not be allowed arms. And the Supreme Court were, for a century or more, perfectly content with local firearm regulation.
@t-8900 Wherever did you say your family or you has been in war? I do easily believe you're schizophrenic. What when I'm the only one who mentioned coming from a military family. Comically military and police families - unless ptsd suffers, are schizophrenic, etc. or mentally deranged in some way or another - own the LEAST amount of guns as civilians... it's the civilian nutjobs that own multiple guns.
By the way, as said MANY TIMES for your LIMITED IQ, supreme count cases DO NOT APPLY for when the 2nd amendant was written. ARE YOU AN IDIOT? Well you've proven you are many a time. As goaded refers to the constitution and other LEGAL documentation refers to PEACEFUL CITIZENS.
That is WHY idiot in the old black & white movies you ALMOST NEVER see people with guns. Because GUNS were LIMITED to POLICE and CRIMINALS not the general public. STUPID.
@APrettyLittleLady87 "Wherever did you say your family or you has been in war?" you ASSumed without any verification to my background for starters.
" it's the civilian nutjobs that own multiple guns." Nope. Some of the biggest 2nd Amendment advocates come from the military and I hang around them a f*ck ton at the VA. And I have hung out with em in PA, VA, DE, MD, and NJ. Most are pro 2A and the ones who aren't still say they believe people should have access to handguns, shotguns, and bolt actions. So you're wrong, big time. And one of the biggest Gun Channels on youtube, Nutnfancy is ex military. Along with Military Arms Channel, TheYankeeMarhshal, just to name a few. There's a f*ck ton of military and ex military apart of local pro 2 A groups and you're a complete idiot if you think otherwise. But keep trying sweetheart.
"documentation refers to PEACEFUL CITIZENS"
point one time I wasn't peaceful, dumb@$$. I've survived two home invasions, brandished the firearms and they ran. I didn't even take the shot when I could have. F**k off with your dumb $h*t.
"Because GUNS were LIMITED to POLICE and CRIMINALS not the general public."
So movies are an accurate portrayal of the real world? LMFAO! And to boot what you are saying is... criminals won't comply anyways? *shocked pikachu face* then neither will I. By all means if you want to fund my family's 24/7 armed security force then be my guest. If not, then f**k right on off.
@t-8900 Look imbecile. Your low intelligence & poor comprehension makes arguing with you pointless as your little brain can't comprehend what I am saying. by the way... Do you happen to have a job that requires more brains than flipping burgers? I mean you admitted you come from an achieve nothing family.
@APrettyLittleLady87 I mean there's no point in comparing dick sizes when you can't verify your name, branch, and rank. So unless you can prove that wtf is the point? You made all these claims, burden of proof is on your first. Anything else? My grandfather was featured in 2 WW2 books and my family came from the noble ranks of the Italian city States of Northern Italy, specifically Savoy, Genoa, and Milan. I'll share my proof that your blood is peasant dirt and fecal matter to mine once you share proof and that members of my family likely outranked most of your own family within the Armed forces. Gladly in fact. But gonna need a picture, name, verification of all that. Since you won't show me I think we're done here cupcake. Enjoy playing at soldier. The ladies get in with kid's gloves anyways and their standards are a joke to the men. You got in with affirmative action, if you got in at all. Why dont you go make yourself useful and shine some boots, barracks rat. XD
@t-8900 ROFL. You never belonged to the military. And none of your family were. If your grandfather was military why didn't you mention it earlier instead of now? Hmmm...
It would've made far more sense to say this when I mentioned early I come from a military family that goes back to the Neoplan wars. Or when you mentioned you hang around, like a bootlicker, with people who are veterans. Your grandfather... he wasn't worthy of cleaning up after military K9 units.
As for peasants... your ill-breeding is as obvious as the sun. You ramble like some stupid rabid dog that should be kicked upside the head.
@t-8900 - As for peasants... your ill-breeding is as obvious as the sun. You ramble like some stupid rabid dog that should be kicked upside the head.. Yeah. In civilized countries, they shot mutts like you.
@APrettyLittleLady87 lmfao the people on here who know already KNOW. I've established it on Gag before. My grandfather was awarded the Bronze and Silver stars was a Sea Bees commander. I have receipts for those claims but until you vomit up some proof I'm not sharing. So either prove you are what you say or stfu. The people in this community already know I have established this before with pics, names , etc. So give me your name, your rank, your branch. till then you're talking out your ass. As for ill-breeding you just posted the same thing twice because of inbreeding. XD
@APrettyLittleLady87 y'know what? I've looked at your page. Lvl 1, last post was 3 days ago and it was so stupid no one bothered to respond. So I'm gonna block ya troll. Enjoy pretending to be a woman for a day. XD
@t-8900 It took you that long to look up my profile? Jeez. First thing I did at your level of stupidity hours ago was look. A MHO of 26% is pretty lousy and slightly above true moron level.
@goaded Mass-shooting statistics also don't account for crime that otherwise would have been done with a gun, and thus noted in gun statistics, that instead was carried out through other harmful/violent means like the UK's Manchester Arena Bombing that killed 23 people and injured 800.
The Manchester Arena Bomber wasn't like "I want to hurt people, but I don't have any convenient access to firearms. I guess I'll just carry on with my normal life and not hurt anyone." If someone wants to hurt someone, they will.
Gun control won't stop things like the Waukesha incident where people deliberately ram there car into others and drive over people with the specific intent to kill them.
You're not going to ban knives, you're not going to ban cars. You aren't going to ban household products that can be turned into explosive. So you're not going to make people safer with gun control laws. All you're going to do is incentivize criminals to act out, make weak people more vulnerable, restrict the rights of innocent, well-meaning civilians.
Additionally, comparing UK statistics to US statistics isn't comparable. Even if you use per capita, which you didn't. It's kind of boring mathematics and this is purely example mathematics and I'm not suggesting these numbers are accurate at all, but if you get a nutjob who wants to hurt people in 1 in every 80 million people, statistically speaking the UK would be inclined to have 0 of them and the US would have 4 of them. If it makes it any more intuitive, you can look at it like if Amweova had 30 people and the UK had 6 people. If 1 in every 8 people do something bad, the UK would be inclined to have none, whole the US would be inclined to have some. So it isn't even as simple as per-capita.
@crmoore So, how many people have been killed in random acts of violence in the UK this century? 20 by mass shooters, 23 in the Manchester bombing, 56 on 7/7, 8 on London Bridge. But wait, those last three were terrorist attacks. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether you want to include them (and therefore 9/11).
"You're not going to ban knives, you're not going to ban cars. You aren't going to ban household products that can be turned into explosive." Of course not, they're actually useful and not designed to kill (and practically no-one knows how to make explosives from household products, even if they can buy enough of them without raising red flags).
"So you're not going to make people safer with gun control laws." Of course you are. It takes more effort to kill people those other ways, with the possible exception of the car. It also means you don't have loads of guns floating around, with the associated hundreds of accidental deaths and tens of thousands of suicides every year.
Just divide the US numbers by five if you want per capita. That's still 81 deaths just from the 10+ people dead definition of mass shooting. Of the four mass shooting events in the UK, there's just one that reaches that definition. Use the UK definition of a mass shooting and the US has more than one a day, compared to one every five years or so in the UK.
Where did this 18 year old get $4,000 to buy 2 guns? Do you think his parents had anything to do with giving him the money to buy himself 2 birthday presents? When are these idiot people going to stop supplying their kids with guns so they can kill people? I will say it again, it is not the guns it is the mental health crisis we are going through in the US because of all the unprecedented shit going on.
I own guns and I am not going to get rid of mine. I keep two locked up and one with me at all times. If people can’t follow gun safety procedures or the place that sold him the guns did not follow the process for selling guns. That place should lose their license for selling guns. It is just me in my house and I am not going to hope me using a taser and hitting them is enough. I go to the range, have a concealed carry permit, registered with the state and have taken courses, so I don’t hurt someone. You are never going to be able to stop people from owning guns. Yes this is tragic and upsetting. It hits home, because I live in Texas. I wish the person who did this would of seen his day in court, so he could know the pain and suffering he caused. He could of had a mental illness. We don’t know. I am sure after investigating this more, we will know more
@supercutebutt Most people already live in jurisdictions where that's required. It has literally never had an effect on the violent crime rates per capita. It only ever stifles ordinary citizens. But then again that's the whole point, isn't it?
Guns aren’t the issue , it’s the mentally ill people that are the issue , This country needs to start putting our tax dollars into these schools to have armed security and metal detectors to protect the children , every student and every teacher and every visitor needs to be checked before entering or the other option shut the schools down and just keep colleges and trade schools open and make them all have armed security and metal detectors but for the children teach them online because this shit isn’t going to end , Parents should feel safe sending their children to school and nowadays it’s not possible , Violence is something that can’t really be controlled but removing places where violence occurs can be removed.
You don´t need more shootings to happen but you need to make an environment where people feel safe. Maybe you should think about a common helfcare system because this like many other phenomen like a "Karen" sound uniquely US American to me. People buy guns because to feel secure, they don´t need to be secure but it makes you feel secure. People in other countries feel secure without happens, like Norway banned all semi-automatic weapons last year. Most European countries have stricter gun laws than the US and people still feel more secure on average. I think the solution is not to ban guns but to make feel secure.
I´ll tell you never because guns are part of American culture and you´ll probably never get to abolish or reduce them. So reduce the ability of enter the school campus. Meaning a wall or a fence around the school campus so that there are at best just two entrances to the school campus. Put a campus police at every entry so they can control every person that wishes to enter the campus that doesn´t have a student or workers ID and therefore a right to enter the campus. That sounds expensive but it´s the only way I see that would be helpful. Because giving the teachers guns that doesn´t sound helpful to me if they can´t handle them correctly and are not good at aiming they kill or injure a student.
While i agree its a senseless act of violence, and im not a gun nut, outlawing gun ownership would not have prevented this tragedy. And how exactly does the government go about collecting banned firearms from the populace? Are you proposing a military style round up of American citizens? Such principle goes against everything American. Dont let emotion dictate political principle.
Dont get me wrong. Lots of people have guns who shouldn't. And we live in a culture which perpetuates violence and allows for misconduct without consequence. This, rather, seems to be the core of the problem. And one which unfortunately has no simple solution.
Okay. Tomorrow they’re banned and everyone has to turn in all of their firearms. Now what? There is no clear number of firearms in possession, it’s guesstimated to be around 400,000,000, with tens of trillions of rounds of ammunition. Who is going to enforce it? We‘ve lost the war on drugs. Their is mass produced fentanyl streaming across the border in records amounts. Alcohol prohibition was a complete failure. Even vaccine mandates didn’t last. What will you do with the states, localities and individuals that refuse? Who’s going to go door to door? What if people fight back? What if national guards defy orders? How far are you willing to push this? Mass incarceration faculties? Camps?
Serious questions because many of the things gun control supporters say fly in the face of reality.
Let's change the laws about gun ownership because people who plan to kill multiple people will be afraid to violate gun control laws. They'll be shaking in their boots at the thought of getting arrested in a firearms charge!
Meanwhile, you probably want to defund the police and tell us to try having social workers come to the house and talk to the guys who break in at 3 am.
The second amendment allows citizens to posses firearms, to protect themselves from tyranny. The first thing any tyrannical government does is disarm the populous to make it easier to control and manipulate them. If you look back on any major government lead massacre, or holocaust, the first thing they did was disarm the population. i. e Germany, Venezuela, and to go even further back England. The founding fathers had just freed themselves from tyrannical control, and included the second amendment in our constitution, in case a time like that happened again.
@pimpinpenguin23 @t-8900 - have you ever read the second amendment? Do you comprehend even a quarter of what these words mean >>> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. <<<<<<<<< ? I am quite serious because so many Americans quote the second amendment and yet taken in the literal meaning none of them should own guns.
@007kingifrit ROFL. You gotta be beyond stupid to think "all able bodied men above 17" that applied to anyone who wasn't white. That that allowed slaves, etc to have guns.
@APrettyLittleLady87 again you are reading the constitution with modern language, not thinking of the context of the game. you need to learn to put yourself into a 1791 mindset if you are going to try and interpret legal documents from that time
@APrettyLittleLady87 "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Do you have a different definition of "people?"
Idiots and cowards like you are the reason these shootings happen. These lunatics know nothing is going to happen to them until the cops get there, because nobody carries guns anymore. Why? Because dumb liberals like you it is no longer legal in most places and no longer socially acceptable. You're not going to stop a killer by standing around, holding hands, and singing Kumbaya you idiot. You stop them with a gun, by killing them. Standing around, waiting for the cops, and doing nothing about it is what gets more people killed. People die because all you cowards are afraid to stand up for others. Wishing bad things away doesn't work in real life, you have too actually do something to stop them. Making guns illegal is not going to do shit. It's already illegal to kill people. People who break the law don't care what you make illegal, genius. There's people with guns protecting your country, neighborhood, money, your beloved worthless Demo-rat politicians, but why not your children?
There have been mass knife attacks on children and teachers in China. The common thread is a hopeless disenfranchised man going on a pre suicidal rampage.
It's not really a gun issue as much as it's a violent offshoot of the crisis of hopelessness and suicides that has been worsening in recent years.
Besides that, a ban won't fix anything.
Guns are heavily restricted in Canada, and yet shockingly the criminals and murderous rampage types are still armed.
Anti gun laws only disarm the law abiding, who are almost never the problem anyways.
At most you'll just encourage bombings, stabbings and van attacks instead. Are we going to ban cutlery, vehicles and household chemicals too?
If somebody is bent on a rampage a ban on firearms isn't going to stop them.
We might be better off trying to create economic conditions in which fewer people want to end themselves.
Did outlawing them stop this mass shooting? No? Does outlawing is actually stop mass shootings? No? If someone wanted to harm many people and even IF it stopped them from using a gun to do it (which it often doesn't), would it stop them from doing with explosives? Or a knife? Or a car? No? Then all you're asking us is to punish decent, law-abiding, non-murderous citizens. If your gun laws worked, why wasn't the Plymouth shooter stopped? Your "but gun control!" BS is getting so incre8dbly old. The world isn't as simple as you think it is.
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"... peaceable citizens...". So he thought there was a class of citizens who should not be allowed arms. And the Supreme Court were, for a century or more, perfectly content with local firearm regulation. 
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