I Have a Question

So if stricter gun control won't solve anything why has it worked so goddamn well in Australia?

How many mass shootings have they had since the 90's? Even one?

How many has the US had? Something like 70.

Why is strict gun control "not working" so effectively over there?

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Pretzel · 70-79, M

@dick - it's funny (not funny, but you know what I mean) when people talk about using ar15 assault rifles for hunting - when most of the people I've talked to talk about using their bolt action 308 or 30-30s so they could take one clean shot and drop that animal quickly and cleanly.

I suspect if you took away all the semi-autos then you'd just have more snipers killing as many as possible from a secluded vantage point.

it is frustrating. and while the shootings like orlando make the news - they are really only a drop in the bucket - look at chicago's deaths for 2016 (to date)
58 deaths, 55 were homicides and 280 shot.

sure, the orlando deaths almost matched the number in a period of hours, but that was one city - add them up over the U.S. day by day and the number of grieving families is staggering