my point was, guns arnt the problem, they are just the tool

you dont blame the spoon for getting america fat

so you all seriously think that it would be easy to remove 200mill guns from the public?

how would you propose that?

wtf is supernatural? now if you mean kill bill...

It is perhaps too easy to forget how many times this has happened. The horrific mass murder at a movie theater in Colorado on July 20, another at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on August 5, another at a manufacturer in Minneapolis on September 27—and then the unthinkable nightmare at a Connecticut elementary school on December 14—are the latest in an epidemic of such gun violence over the last three decades. Since 1982, there have been at least 62 mass shootings* across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii. Twenty-five of these mass shootings have occurred since 2006, and seven of them took place in 2012. We've mapped them below, including details on the shooters' identities, the types of weapons they used, and the number of victims they injured and killed.

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Weapons: Of the 142 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally. The arsenal included dozens of assault weapons and semiautomatic handguns. (See charts below.) Just as Jeffrey Weise used a .40-caliber Glock to slaughter students in Red Lake, Minnesota, in 2005, so too did James Holmes, along with an AR-15 assault rifle, when blasting away at his victims in a darkened movie theater. In Newtown, Connecticut, Adam Lanza wielded a .223 Bushmaster semiautomatic assault rifle as he massacred 20 school children and six adults.

my point was, guns arnt the problem, they are just the tool

you dont blame the spoon for getting america fat

nice edit

i find it entertaining that people with so little knowledge have such strong opinions.

so you all seriously think that it would be easy to remove 270mill guns from the public?

how would you propose that?

im sick and tired of people using Australia as an example. They had neither the population nor the gun proliferation that the US does.

Control has worked very well in the US in the past with the prohibition of alcohol, and the control of drugs. There are already so many illegal guns in the US.

Of the 142 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally

Control has worked very well in the US in the past with the prohibition of alcohol, and the control of drugs. There are already so many illegal guns in the US.

i see that your reading comprehension and deductive logic are just as strong as your knowledge on guns.

i am not concerned about the school shootings. they are terrible but they are not my main concern.

you think that every thief and felon has a legal gun? are you that nieve? Just because the kids that get the gun from their parents that have legal guns, doesn't mean that all the guns in the US are legal. i m far more concerned with the felon that has the gun that wants to rob me than i am about some psychopath that has irresponsible parents.

im not even going to respond to that

our cultures are too different. you stick to your tyranny and i will stay here in the US

Is it really that different? You are aware both our countries are democratic Republics?

i would prefer to identify the mentally ill and treat them, rather than punish the rest of the country because they MIGHT gain access to a gun.

i guess we just have different outlooks on life. i try to solve the root of a problem, you look for the stop gap. attempting taking guns of the street does nothing to solve mental illness and killing sprees.

a unstable person will do what they want, no matter if it is easy or not.

wtf? people in Singapore aren't responsible enough to be allowed to chew gum safely? crazy zombies.

so you dont consider someone who would take the lives of multiple humans mentally ill?

the last 4+ shootings that i remember have all been people that in hind sight have shown signs of illness for MONTHS before the incidents.


let me make this easy for you. it is impossible to get the guns off the streets of the US. there are too many of them. this is a fact. period. you can sit over there in your perfect country and think wht you want, but the fact is you know nothing of the US. you know only what you see on the news and form your opinions on that. you dont even know the difference between the guns you seem to have such a strong opinion on. deal with it.