I'm actually in complete agreement. I think these mass shooting scenarios that the left wants to use as the "AHA!" moment for America will never work. Americans have long been trained to believe you can never stop one guy that's crazy who wants to do damage. These situations are rare and even a bad one like this isn't going to convince many people to change a belief that they hold so deep to their core.
what do you mean by trained? do you actually think this person could of been stopped? I've yet to hear a single person on this board propose anything that would of stopped this guy. Schumer is out there today talking about banning silencers? wtf would that of done?
USA has a 10x bigger population than Canada, 30x bigger population than Portugal, 80x bigger population than Ireland. etc etc
This is per 100k inhabitants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Thanks for the clarification. Interesting data. Wondering how many of those are related to mass shootings though. I'm guessing the vast majority is due to drug crime.
Definitely, but that widespread access to cheap illegal firearms is only possible because of current laws. Blackmarket prices absolutely skyrocket when guns are completely outlawed in an entire country.
Like a lot of issues, this one is cultural. There is a culture of gun violence in this country that is absent in most.
Something that I noticed from your wikipedia link is that USA could learn some things from Serbia. Serbia has a comparable amount of guns owned per 100 inhabitants, but has a 6x lower homicide rate.
I don't think so, either. The cat's out of the bag. There are too many guns in circulation and it'll be impossible to remove the illegal ones anytime soon. I'm fine adding ammo restrictions, too. Limit the ammo sold in a certain time period similar to how some behind-the-counter drugs are. Pharmaceuticals are more heavily regulated than firearms that are much more dangerous. Why can't we apply similar restrictions to firearms that we apply to pharmaceuticals? Like tallanvor and others have mentioned, these measures will not prevent this type of mass attack. I doubt anything could overnight without a strict violation of rights (to bear firearms or privacy). But it's still a step in the right direction to improve gun control laws and limit firearm homicides.
1968 - 2015: 1.5 million deaths domestically by firearms All American History: 1.4 million deaths by war/major conflict How about healthcare? Those that are in favor of the loosest gun laws possible are typically also in favor of the complete opposite of universal healthcare. Right to bear arms?? Absolutely. Right to have your life saved in a hospital if shot without bearing the burden of insurmountable debt?? Absolutely NOT!!
Medication isn't protected under the Constitution... Which is the argument I can see bobbythegreat making. Still funny though.
