US Mass Shootings / Gun Control - News & Opinions

[DonDiego]

In Canada, it's less likely to have firearms in urban areas but most families living in the countryside will have at least one. Hunting is very popular outside of cities but unlike the US, you will find a lot less people addicted to the toy aspect of a gun. Meaning going to a range or the backyard to shoot for fun...

In the end, it comes to selfishness, very few want to pay extra money for permits and background checks and a lot of them don't want the government to track their weapons. From the perspective of a stable law-abiding gun owner, they would argue that they are not the ones causing problems so why should they pay and suffer because of nutcases... Non gun owners look at a different picture and since restrictions don't affect them, it's a lot easier to call for them. Nothing crazy, just human nature, look after your own interests.

[DonDiego]

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Not only do you still have fantasy obsessions, but you also have reading comprehension problems since I stated that Americans are far more likely to use guns for pleasure than Canadians. Of course, in the said fantasy world, it's always very easy to fix the world's problems if only everyone was as smart as you are...except for that pesky reading comprehension. Carry on tonto...

[mrgoodkat]

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Gun control/bans would require a constitutional amendment, Congress can't even pass bog-standard laws. But tell us more about the evil NRA.

[DonDiego]

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Now that sounds more like it tonto...

[sarsi]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65170507

;_; why are they (media) calling it a ghost gun like it is a new problem.. it's just illegally home-made weapons, has always been accessible online if you want to find - like a home-made bomb or a home-made gun, just like what the guy used to assassinate former Japan PM Shinzo Abe..

I'm not downplaying it as old so no big worry. But this new age labelling repackage is a sign of a really serious issue everywhere, our generation. Like someone (not the govt on gun issues tho it applies to them too) with a situation to fix and everytime you check back in with the status, they're working on it 24/7 but there's always some delay, some new spin that complicated the situation into a new one etc..

[sarsi]

Source not vetted but if there is still such a range and this doesn't automatically mean the worried ones support gun restriction.. very low chance of quick progress. The divide is across the board, not just worry but on total ban/extent of gun restriction they prefer. Our side keeps highlighting number of deaths in mass shootings, senseless loss which can be prevented. That number is high when you compare it to zero. But not high when you compare it to total gun deaths and very low if you weigh it against restricting an existing right every citizen gets to exercise now. If the right shouldn't exist cuz we should aim for no violence, that's a gun culture issue. But we keep demanding them to be the ones to fix it, they should sort out details- why would they, they are on the side against it.

There are 2 menaces involved. The gun and the one wielding it. Take away the gun may solve the gun part but the other menace continues. We want them to care abt taking away the gun but we don't care abt the other menace at all. Settle the gun part first. They'll tell us to settle the human menace first cuz that might cure the gun problem altogether.

Also. most of them don't seem as mentally ill as portrayed - just mentally compromised from struggling with life issues leading to that point. When searches turn up anything related to hate speech, porn, gun games, racism - these show he was a mentally unstable person, why didn't the laws even prevent them from buying.. I think it won't cuz they are not mentally ill like marbles in the head.

Other countries have mass killings too, just not guns. The car and the plane (dreading) will be Asia's..

[mrgoodkat]

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Oh, you are definitely part of this merry band of twats. Don't sell yourself short.

[sarsi]

I assume ppl will disagree but I actually see the mass shootings anti-gun movement as an obstacle to amending gun laws. Not the only one but a pretty big one. My old idea - if we want more restrictions or a ban immediately, we need more mass shootings at government offices, legislative buildings etc. It will work, no jokes. But unless the mass shooters align with us, I would plot to lower the volume on the mass shootings, pretend we lost interest, no more outrage over how schools look like prisons because of guns, then go abt the proposing the amendments as a matter of ordinary course logic. It is sorta the same sneaky shit the anti-porn hubbers tried to do but without waving the big banner up front. That big banner doesn't exist for us, it's actually the very thing that's setting off their security alarms.

[sarsi]

Just to be clear, I am not against griping abt the pro-gunners. What I said wasn't meant as a motivational speech to encourage ppl to reflect and do more or for some altruistic principle. Among other things and that what we're doing so far isn't working, I am literally saying the other menace will still be around, what are we going to do with that if by chance one day we actually amend the laws cuz what doesn't go up and away will come down quite fast. Right now we have the luxury of just focusing on the pro-gun side cuz the other menace invariably to our convenience takes itself out of the equation naturally..

We don't have specialized mental hospitals like before cuz I think they merged those together with standard hospitals.. if every mass shooter gets dismissed as mentally unstable satanic worshipper, I can see a whole shitload of problems and tax money just down the road. Why do we keep tagging them as mentally cuckoo.. instead of just not tagging at all. When someone in another country goes on a knife stabbing rampage, they just get called disgruntled anti-social ppl.. and if they get caught, they go to jail like a normal criminal. No insanity plea no mental hospital.

[sarsi]

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...-injures-seven

https://archive.is/35A9j

In June 2018, a 29-year-old man stabbed two children to death at the gates to their school in Shanghai. He later told police he was angry about being unemployed and decided to take his revenge on society. He was given the death penalty and executed earlier this month

Why do we have a default mentally ill stereotype.. what.. we feel bad abt just calling them assholes?