Is human life really so cheap that ownership of guns outweighs it?

We now exist in a society for when a tragic shooting takes place, there apparently is no time used to grieve. No time for people to show reverence for the dead and no time to just show respect for all the victims. We are all encouraged to have an initial act of outrage, without ever taking the time in letting the facts and evidence unfold.


It has becomes a race by both sides of the political spectrum in order to place the blame on the other side for the tragedy. The media wants us to believe that the shooter always had to be motivated by a particular ideology, in order to commit such a heinous act.

How low have both sides become? Why is there always this insistence by the media to use tragedies for one side's political gain?

We need to all take a collective breath and stop feeding into these partisans on both sides, who use tragedies to instill hatred of our political opponents.

Time for all of us as decent human beings to learn how to act with class when a tragedy occurs. Wait for the gathering of evidence, and then come to a conclusion on why and how this particular incident took place, based upon the facts, along with an extensive investigation.

Most of the time these tragedies boil down to a mentally disturbed person, just reaching his/her tipping point and snapping. People within families need to pay close attention to loved ones struggling. With the proper attention, help and genuine care, most of this stuff could become avoidable.

Let's all respect the dead, especially when tragedies take place and put an end to scoring points politically.

Let's all make an attempt to resemble decent and caring human beings, and not pawns of particular ideologies/media outlets, which love to take advantage of our emotions, when we initially react to these types of tragic scenarios.

The Nation Rifle Association and their Republicans in Congress have enabled mass shootings to happen, Democrats have passed common sense background check in the house of representatives but the Republicans in the Senate have stalled and filibustered the bill.

[quote]Is human life really so cheap that ownership of guns outweighs it?[/quote]

Of course not.
The loss of liberty is another question though.

[quote]why are there so many people who happily take their weapons to gun down children? [/quote]

Barabara - it's not like people are waiting in line to shoot children. You're not that stupid, are you? Just being overly dramatic - right?

Which life? Because criminals and people with ill intent will get guns one way or another, they won't be vaporized and disappear

That means that the gun laws you're in favor of will mean more rapes, more murders, more theft, robbery, home invasions

Because criminals will still have guns, law abiding citizens won't

It's a power balance

You're thinking "get rid of guns" which will not happen

Even if you're starkly against guns, you can't be for these gun laws and not be ignorant, it just doesn't work

The lives you're speaking of, far many more would be lost due to people being easy prey without defenses and the criminals knowing that people don't have them

The Swiss actually have a higher rate of mass shooting deaths than the US per capita. The US doesn't even make the top 10.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country

Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
Norway — 1.888
Serbia — 0.381
France — 0.347
Macedonia — 0.337
Albania — 0.206
Slovakia — 0.185
Switzerland — 0.142
Finland — 0.132
Belgium — 0.128
Czech Republic — 0.123
United States — 0.089
Austria — 0.068
Netherlands — 0.051
Canada — 0.032
England — 0.027
Germany — 0.023
Russia — 0.012
Italy — 0.009

I don't hear about mass shootings in Switzerland because I don't follow the news from Switzerland but per capita, a Swiss citizen appears 1 and a half times more likely to be killed by a mass shooting event than a US citizen. Norway surprises me, I have been there and while they don't appear to care much for tourists, I wouldn't think they would take the lead worldwide for mass shootings.

@BarboraK Babs The Trump wing of Republican politicians and their supporters don't care about the lives of children, they care about their military type guns the AR15 & AK47 before the lives of innocent civilians

The Trump wing Republican politicians tout their rating from NRA, show off machine guns in their political campaign ads, they also don't support common sense background checks, nor red flag laws, instead they support no restrictions to own all types of guns including the machine guns that enabled the mass shooting at Uvalde elementary school that got 19 Children and 2 Teachers murdered.

You are correct. And that is why gun control is not the answer.
Although I must disagree with your characterization that there are "so many people who happily take their weapons to gun down children.”
It is an exceedingly rare occurrence(although not rare enough), and no one who does it is happy.

There are many problems in the uk and one of the major problems is the social services but thankgod we dont allow citizens to own guns . I am just praying that as our young people leave college and university things like social services will change . If not I am glad I will hopefully be gone soon as it really upsets me the way things are . However I have lost all hope for the US as their young people seem no better than the adults before them .

It's the USA so its to be expected.

Guns are more important than human life.

So guns both are and aren't the problem?

This post is very bipolar.

Good question.

But maybe the question should be focused on why there are so many murderous Americans Vs Switzerland and Austria?

What do Swiss and Austrian parents do to raise children to become responsible members of society Vs what we do to raise so many irresponsible members of society?

Well the thing is, in Austria I'm pretty sure you'd have to go trough a lot more trouble to obtain a firearm, and I'm talking pistol, getting a semi auto rifle there is definitely way harder than the US. Of course gun ownership doesn't outweigh human lives but at this point I think the US is too far gone to ever make guns illegal.

Its the American mentality at fault . The only difference is the American indians used bows and arrows the Americans use guns . However thats the only difference the mentality of the old west hasnt changed they all still think their cowboys living in times of cowboys and gunslingers .

People can have access without any real training. And then bleeding heart liberals want the government to fix it. If you use a gun like that,death by firing squad. And the ones who lost do the shooting. Maybe it'll take a while to actually kill them

Mentally ill people should not be getting easy access to guns period.

When will you people realize that the bad guys have guns regardless to the law/s?

Yes it is psychological problem

He played GTA 5 to much