[billethkid]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

How many people remember the Boston marathon bombing back in 2013? Two nut cases filled home kitchen pressure cookers with black powder taken from fireworks and made a couple bombs that killed, injured and maimed a number of people.

In 1995 Timothy McVeigh used a truck loaded with a fertilizer/diesel fuel mixture bomb that killed 168 people, which included children, and injured over 680 others.

In June 2001 in Japan, a school janitor/maintenance man entered a school and used a knife to kill 8 children and seriously wound 13 more including 2 teachers.

There have been so many bombing incidents in the middle east with hundreds killed and many more injured/maimed and not a gun was used.

In May this year a man in Tokyo, Japan killed one school girl and an adult and injured at least 17 others at a bus stop using a knife.

In 2018 in the UK they experienced the highest number of knife assaults since they began keeping records. In 2018 in England and Wales there were 732 homicides. Children as young as 9 are carrying knives out of fear of being attacked. Don't ask for links as I'm not computer savvy enough to get them to work, google is your friend.

What is the point of this information? Some of these places have such strict gun control laws that it is nearly impossible to own one, except for the middle east. In the absence of guns other, means are used and return just as horrific a body count as the mass shootings in the news. How many times do I have to say WE HAVE A VIOLENCE PROBLEM in this country and in many others. Passing more laws that will be ignored by the criminal to prohibit one homicide tool will just increase the death count by another tool. Strict gun laws in other countries isn't stopping the violence. Why is there no effort to discover why there is so much violent behavior and attitude? It's easier to pass a law that won't work and let so many have their emotional "gotta do something now" fix and go on with their lives thinking it will get better. Too many people don't want an honest discussion on violence as it might cause them to have to re-think some of their beliefs.

The question not many are interested in as it does not have an agenda fixed to it....