This is a good article. I noticed that 35 Billion dollars would be needed to provide enough school counselors. I would be willing to have my property taxes raised to accomplish this. But, the question is, how many other people here would?

Only in the U.S. can you get shot in school, go to the supermarket get shot, go the hospital, get shot again, recover, then go to church — only to get shot once more.

The US is the only one of the G-7 that has a HUGE mass murder issue. Their children do NOT have tobe frightened to go to school. And Canada is working on a method to prevent 99% of all GUN crime, while still allowing for legitimate hunting and target practice. I guess that the northern attitudes make Canada smarter than the US and Mexico!

No pun intended but there is no Silver Bullet for the solution to this. The genie is out of the bottle and will continue to slip through our fingers if attempt to put him back in.

Let's just say you ban all guns - that might stop NEW guns from getting on the street but then how do you collect all the guns that are out there and how many will die in the effort of trying to collect them?

Sorry I don't have the link, but I read someplace where after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the reason they didn't start invading the US was because they knew we were armed and would resist. Switzerland issues everyone a rifle and you don't hear about mass shooting there. The issue isn't just the tool but the person wielding it.

Now do I have a solution, sorry no. Wish I did... Do I think making background checks mandatory for any automatic weapon purchase is a good idea, as long as it includes a mental health check with that and a way for people to challenge if it has been set.

Just my 2 cents worth.

I agree with both #1 and #2.

If "the cows were coming home" in Australia, then the little children would NOT be afraid to go to school !!!!!

Well, "switchblade" drones can almost do that. I hear that the NRA is proposing those for CIVILIAN US use.

They need them for hunting 😂😂😂

I just watched the Chief of Police in Tulsa giving the timeline.

Less than 10 minutes after the 911 call, police were on the second floor of the Doctors office building where the shooting took place. The scene (2nd floor) was described as a complicate place for the officers and posed particular problems. THEY were yelling, "Tulsa Police". A minute later the shooter shoot himself.

Well trained, well disciplined. less than 10 minutes. Not a hour later some officers ignore orders and go in - like in Texas. Fast response is the top priority in training for these situations. And in Tulsa it worked.

BTW: Not that it matters. The shooter was not happy with the outcome of a surgery he had a week or so before, so on the 29th he purchase a semi-automatic hand gun (.40 Cal) and on the day of the shooting he purchase an AR-15 style weapon. 30 casings of 0.223 were found on the scene, and 8(? something like that) casing of .40 found on the scene. He left a letter saying he was going to kill the doctor and anyone that got into his way. It took him almost 40 rounds to accomplish his goal. I guess others ( like patients and doctors) got in his way.

EDITED to remove comment about facts that some found offensive. Facts are facts, unless you don't like them I guess.

Slick deflection to Covid.

Seeing how popular Shooters World is, I would guess TV has a high per capita gun ownership rate and a very low per capita homicide rate.

Are the guns in The Villages different, that they don’t kill people, like the do in Detroit?

Keep guessing, you are getting warm.........hint UK ownership.

Maybe. The guns are old, their muzzle velocity has slowed down, the bullets are softer and the trigger is rusty 😂😂😂

Yes, there should be a mental health test......every 2 years. ?????? I wonder how many here in TV Land would pass. I remember a tennis player here that definitely would NOT pass. And one of my neighbors, I have serious doubts about.

The deer better watch out......meat prices are skyrocketing!

Uvalde is city with a population of 16,000 with a police force that reflects that number. Tulsa has a population of 400,000. Who do you expect to have a better trained and staffed police department?

Then your race baiting at the end is just sick!

I drew no conclusions OTHER than I said the Tulsa Police were better trained.

I drew NO conclusions in my observation of differences in the victims. My statement was true. In Uvalde nothing happened until a Childs father arrived and went in.

You can draw any conclusions you want, please do not attribute your opinions to my comment. Draw your own conclusions.

Christianity - oh yeah. That's a good one. The religion that did the whole "convert or die" thing back during the Crusades. The thing that had Englanders rushing to the New World to escape persecution because their version of Christianity wasn't the "right kind."

Christianity - the #1 religion in Oklahoma, where over 75% of the population is some denomination or another of Christian.

Here's some clues: the majority of mass shooters in the USA were NOT athiests. Lack of universal background checks made it easier for them to get more guns and more ammo. Having universal background checks would likely not have stopped most of them. But it would've made it harder for them to get.

I'm not for a weapons ban - banning weapons doesn't stop weapons from being sold. But I am in favor of halting the manufacture of semi-automatics and retail sales. In other words - any currently in circulation should still be allowed to be in circulation. But from now on - any (semi-automatics) made will be for the military and the police, via contract. So there's 100% accountability in the chain of distribution.

I'm also for the clips that hold lots of rounds being restricted (not banned) to military/police use only. I don't know how many rounds, but certainly no one needs more than a couple of bullets to hit their target if they're properly trained.

I'm also for mandatory training and licensing, just as we do for driving motor vehicles.

Wait, didn't we just dump all the mentally ill out? Who was it that defunded the mental health institutions. Oh, now I remember. The ones calling shooters crazy and blaming mental health for all the deaths. The ones that didn't "fix" that when they controlled 3 branches of government. And yet, here they all are again blaming mental health, but not willing to fund it. And still, they couldn't wait to go into recess and NOT propose a mental health funding bill, that they say is the problem.

Prior to 2004 there was a ban on “Assault weapons” but it expired. Were things better then? Just asking….

I agree with testing.

Let's set up tests to determine if a person is intelligent enough to vote in elections.

Test to determine if a person is literate and knowledgeable enough of a subject to post on social media and in newspaper letters to the editor.

As to driver's licenses, we need to have annual mandatory evaluations of ability to drive for anyone over 55 years old.

Let's require education and licensing for marriage and child rearing. Nearly as many children are maimed or killed by child abusers as with firearms.
Forty to fifty percent of marriages end in divorce which creates serious emotional problems for children.

Require intelligence tests for jury members.

Amen!

Spot on!

Social media and violent video games that kids have access too

A 5 round magazine in a bolt action would be enough for hunting and home defense.

After 2005 mass shootings went up.

I just picked up four 32 round magazines to fit my handguns and PCC. Great price, almost half of what the local gun shops would have charged to ship in. I love this state

1. Regain law and order.

I actually thought you were joking/sarcastic with this response, but I guess not.

Check how many other G7 countries had multiple mass shootings this week? Zero. Same as last week.

For point #1, didn't a couple of the last mass shooters get their AR-15's from their two-parent homes as birthday or Christmas gifts?

You can say with a straight face that guns have nothing to do with the problem?

Guns have nothing to do with the problem. Did you blame Uhaul for the Oklahoma City Bombing? Was Porsche responsible for Paul Pelosi driving drunk and causing an accident. The shooter was the only person responsible

100% agree

Nope.

Home owner is going to be nervous & scared.......not going to be aiming the best......15 shots will do a much better job. Just like police, keep shooting until the bad guy is down.

Excellent idea, long overdue ,, I will of course be in charge of making the decision as to the criteria and have both criminal and civil authority to enforce the needed measures

21 more mass shootings since the Texas School shooting just 11 days ago, and not a new idea, suggestion, just same old complains about how "someone" destroyed our country and we need to ban all AR-15s. Both sides stuck. Repeating the same mantras since this got going for real over 20 year ago.

Round and round. Hating and not trusting while our children, grandchildren, and neighbors die. Everyone has their own favorite theory and is sticking to it by god.

Never a fan of broad brush descriptions of anything, a liberal could include Fox, which in sheer numbers of news media bias would speak for itself.

What is making people going so crazy this year in our country. Could it be??? Our country has lost all morals. Lies are the norm. Police are bad. Druggies are heroes. Legal drugs are over used. God is bad. And so on and on.

It is interesting to note the multiple references to "G-7 Countries." Why be so selective? While it is true that the U.S. seems to hold the vast majority of mass incidents, let's not pretend they have not occurred in Canada, France, Finland, Norway, Brazil, Etc. either.

It is notable that the U.S. culture creates the globe's majority of mass media and direct-injects (some would call brainwashes) violent video games, Hollywood movies, T.V. shows, and "gangster" style music imagery and lyrics directly into hormone-bathed American teen-aged brains.

However, no one is taking Blizzard Entertainment, MGM, or Sony to task for these mass casualty incidents. I wonder why the focus is on the darling of the right, the hated item of the left - the firearm?

Here's the list:

Timeline of Worldwide School and Mass Shootings

Yeah right. If you miss with your first shot, any home invader would be upon you before you could cycle your second. Where as if you had a semiautomatic pistol you could fire off 10 rounds. Even if you missed it would give even the most hardened criminal reason to pause. I can’t believe you post this stuff.

Next they’ll want to ban the knife and fork in order to stop obesity.

I am glad everyone is having so much fun - knives and forks are next, et al. Kind of reminds me of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

I sincerely hope your grandchildren are not next on the hit list parade.