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I said it on the thread the other day. Countries with less guns have less gun crime. Other countries have successfully reduced or banned guns. Those are facts.
If America wants a world where someone (a good person) can carry their loaded gun into Walmart (which there is zero reason to do) then you have to stop complaining when people are massacred.
Unfortunately the amendment now accomplishes the opposite, due to the mass production and proliferation of highly lethal weaponry. Over time the 2nd Amendment's purpose morphed from "protecting rights" to "gun ownership", which are two entirely different things. Unrestrained, the US has reached a point of critical mass, as a nationwide recall would negatively impact responsible gun owners (although we can and should take steps to manage future sales & distribution).
When the answer to a problem is "more guns in the hands of more people", we may have passed the point of no return.
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Your personal anicidont is one overly paranoid dude, who probably needs to talk to someone more than most.
There you go
It just takes a quick google search
Other Western nations are not immune from mental illness, yet their homicide rates are 3-5X+ lower than ours, and while mass shootings do take place (Paris, Christchurch), they are freak occurrences. Compared side-by-side, the metrics of the US, Germany, France, the UK, etc. are very similar, with one glaring difference...
Maybe if lived a country where both parents had to work 50 hours a week kids might grow up to be better adults. But I'm sure more tax cuts for the ultra wealthy will fix that issue. Top-down right?
Makes sense.
Ever hear of an old person who refuses to see a doctor because they are worried about losing a drivers licence? Yeah - the same thing happens with guns -- except people don't often name the reason for fear that their will be repercussions. Patients tend to think "if I say i'm worried about losing my guns, they will definitely take them, so I just better not say anything at all" thus people avoid treatment.
Blaming mental illness just further stigmatizes a community that is already facing an uphill battle.
My guess is because it's just as big of a headline and attention grabber to blame Islam and extremist religions.
People feel better when they categorize the deviant members of society into groups they do not personally belong to.
It's rare to find someone that just says the issue is with people in general. We as humans externalize our problem so we do not have to bare the emotional burden of knowing we dug our own grave.
George Carlin has a great joke about this where he says something like "People say we have to save the planet and that it's fucked. The planet is fine, it doesn't need saving. It's the people that are fucked"
Gun are not the issue, mental health is not the issue, religion is not the issue. People are the issue. There have been killers and awful humans for as long as humans have existed. For thousands of years we as humans have found ever more clever and fucked up ways to kill each other, guns are just the newest trend. Our grandchildren will unfortunately be alive to see what trend takes over after this.
Pit Row
Doesn’t seem like the 4K laws stop mass shooting
It's incorrect to call ar-15s assault weapons. Its the same as an old wooden varmint gun but instead of neutral brown wood they replaced with scarry black plastic. Most hand guns are more powerful. It was designed as a light rifle also so women and kids could enjoy shooting targets etc. Then they mention the chainsaw bayonets. The news has lost all credibility. No assault rifle has been involved in a mass shooting that I know of. Sorry news media. Cant fool everyone with your scarry descriptions.
There is all types of crazy out there, then you have the news manipulating so much b.s.
Also yes gun deaths went down in those countries who had about as many guns as Chicago and banned them but assault and crime went up because only criminals have the weapons.
Maybe make a bunch of new laws and restrictions for the honest citizens and then maybe the criminals will finally start to follow the old laws and then maybe the new ones too. Uh, No they will not.
It's time to call a spade a spade and put forth the resources for sniffing these people out before they strike.
Can you put down your Graflex and presshat long enough to see that?
This is true for all sides of the isle. It is also not a coincidence.
Would it make you feel better if they just called it, "The preferred weapon of mass shooters everywhere"?
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