Gun violence is destroying children in the US, and really what most gun folk are saying about it is, "so what? Who cares? We love our guns more than we do our children." However, there are places in the world that still value the lives of children
you Brits have lots of stabbings and a murder rate in London that surpassed NYC. If you will remember, our right to keep and bear arms came out of necessity to deal with a very treacherous British army . Obama’s tenure as president saw a huge spike in Mass shootings ( most in history) and even terrorist attacks . Here anytime the left wants to push gun control we suddenly have a spike in mass shootings, usually carried by a deranged leftist .
Freedom isn’t free. Law abiding gun owners threaten nothing except those who threaten our freedoms. The current administration won’t punish the perps , just the law abiding citizens. You don’t like the fact that we Americans have freedom? Then don’t live here.
The US has the right to [big]bare[/big] arms baked into our constitution by amendment to enable the citizenry to protect themselves from tyrannical government. After all, they had to expel a vicious colonial empire and that reality was quite fresh in their minds.
Venture to guess what county those evil tyrants were from?
@carpediem bare arms would be nude appendages. The word you meant to use, but for whatever reason didn't (a lack of reading dictionaries?), is "bear" which in addition to meaning a large ish animal also means to carry, to shoulder, to endure. You're welcome.
@Budwick I grew up in WV, everyone hunted. When I was in second or third grade I read a biography about Samuel Colt, how he experimented with designs, making his own black powder. How he designed his revolvers. Been really hooked since then. I have what I need to hunt and for protection,
Why do you think the uk is a comparable example to the us? Do you actually think every country is the same and you can copy paste policies and get the same results?
The us has hundreds of millions of privately owned guns. We have the largest drug market in the world. We share an unsecure border with a drug producing country partially ran by drug importing cartels. The illegal gun market is huge and gun laws do nothing about that.
The uk is a fucking island with a low baseline of crime compared to us, and the gun ban didn't even significantly lower the homicide rate. Neither did the aus gun ban.
If it's so simple as "gun laws would stop it but they don't want to" why are the areas with the most gun crime so often also areas with very strict gun control?
I know it feels good to do something but why do something do ineffectual? This is a software issue not a hardware issue. 9/11, OKC and the Happyland Social Club arson are the three largest mass murders in US history and no gun was used in any of them. The largest school mass murder was done with dynamite.
This is a mental health issue. The kids who went to school with this kids all knew he was scary and weird with a penchant for animal abuse and cutting himself. Everyone who knew him knew he was a problem, teachers, cops and other adults but no one did anything.
He was already breaking a half-dozen Texas gun laws, what new law would change things?
@ninalanyon I haven't read any Greene for decades and honestly can't remember what of his I have read. I think I saw the movie based on the book, but can't even be really sure of that.
@wildbill83 The US cannot stop the influx of guns coming here. They can't even trace the number of illegal guns that are coming in from Mexico. The same people who want gun control also want a borderless North America. How can they reconcile the two?
It figures that some one would try to politicize the latest school shooting tragedy. While the blood of those babies has not yet dried, there are those who ignore the mental illness which caused this, and the home situation which began it.
Instead, they wish to blame the inanimate object that the crazy man used to perpetrate his act of gut wrenching inhumanity.
Following this twisted "logic", then all knives must be banned, all cars and trucks must be banned, and all bombs and incendiaries must be banned. No one may have gasoline or matches, nor may they buy fertilizer.
No, instead, the lackwits go on about the instrument of death, and not the death wielder.
The severity and length of a shooting is in direct relation to the arrival of another gun.. You failed to mention the border patrol officer who stopped this bastard.. with a gun.. weird
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Yes, the highly trained and vetted border patrol guard, whose official position with the British government it was to stop such things.
@CorvusBlackthorne Whilst your here, gracing me yet again with your presence. Please explain what gun laws this guy didnt already break, that would have stopped this travesty?
I’ll wait.
It’s pretty tiring that your elks only solution is to punish law abiding citizens..
Let's begin with an explanation of how you're butchering the English language.
Please explain what gun laws this guy didnt already break, that would have stopped this gravity?
Proposed "red flag laws", such as exist in Oregon, might have caused a delay in his rifle purchase, long enough perhaps for him to give up on his plan. Or perhaps not.
@soar2newhighs Far more than these awful events. Yet not a single word to stop the inward flows is uttered from the idiot at 1600 or his media supporters.
First thing Hitler did was take all the guns too. Chicago banned guns and look at crime levels. One of the northern states has freedom to carry and 0 crime. Hummm.
FOX News is the problem it puts a witchcraft spell on Americans. It does not even report the news. They don't report the criminal hearings right now on Trump, they are owned by big businesses and are biased so they avoid telling Americans the truth. They are brainwashed and they don't even know it!
@Carazaa Okay, so now you're insulting my religion, and I'm going to find something else to talk to people about so I don't say something I might regret later. Have a great day.
@LordShadowfire I tell you the truth! Witchcraft is Satanic deception masquerading as "good" One example is christian pastors who say that they are told the future from God directly, like "I got a word from god about the future" etc. and tarot, palm reading, too, etc
@Carazaa Okay, you really want to do this? Which religious text is it that contains the phrase, "Happy are those whose little ones are dashed against the rocks"? Who's religion teaches a story about a man who cursed a group of children who were making fun of his hair, and God sent attack bears to kill the children? In which of our religions is there a story about an argument between God and Satan that led to an innocent, God-loving man being fucked with to the point that his entire family was murdered, just to prove a point?
@Changeisgonnacome This kind of carnage is about a months worth in Chicago, a city and state with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country.
Every commercially sold gun in the US requires a federal form 4473 which includes an FBI background check.ma Chicago gangbanger cannot drive to Michigan or Wisconsin or Indiana and buy a gun.
I’ve said it elsewhere but this us a mental health issue not a hardware issue.
To amend the constitution, 2/3 of both houses of congress can amend the constitution or there can be a constitutional convention and 2/3 of states push an amendment forward then it takes 3/4 of the states to pass. Try to get the RNC and DNC on board with a convention though. Too many pesky things like term limits would come up.
@Roadsterrider whatever. Politics is not the concern of the American working poor. They're powerless. change is impossible. Americans chose this, and need to stop acting like that doesn't bring deaths. Move on, people. I've been grieving all my life, you can not have any more sympathy for the deaths.
