Originally Posted by Heytubes (Post 2099257)

Guess I can sue car manufacturers when a drunk drive kills someone.

Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 2098789)

Prayers, platitudes, lots of flowers, plenty of photo ops. at the vigils, (cry please) and most of all, empty promises.
Same old faces spouting the same entrenched opinions.
Sells papers, and keeps the talking heads employed.
Nothing will change.
Here's to the next time! :ohdear:

Originally Posted by jebartle (Post 2098784)

19 innocent children, 2 dedicated teachers, lives lost, solution????? More guns, bigger prisons, NOT. Japan, no guns unless police and military, murder rate .3 percent per 100,000, America, 4.7 per 100,000. Mental health wake up call.

Originally Posted by MrFlorida (Post 2098800)

Maybe we should not let our children play violent video games that gives them the idea that it's ok to kill people ?

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2099283)

Throughout the WHOLE world, children play the SAME kind of violent video games. The UK, Germany, and all other countries have an INSIGNIFICANT amount of gun violence compared to the US which is, BY FAR, # 1 . Also mental health is nearly constant throughout the world, so not really a factor! The differentiating factor is that the AVAILABILITY OF GUNS in the US is sssssoooo much greater.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2099278)

Social tensions are VERY high. There are 1.2 guns available per person in the US and a BIG increase in the last 2 years. That is a bad recipe! And there could be something like one mass murder every 10 days in the near future - until something is done nationwide to lower social tensions or do something about the US guns problem or do both.
Australia AND New Zealand HAD a similar problem to the one the US has now. They attacked the gun problem directly by Australia's MELTING DOWN all semi-automatic rifles. Since then they have had only ONE mass murder in about 10 years. That is PROOF POSITIVE that something can be done. Children in Australia and New Zealand do NOT have to fear simply going to school - or adults going to church - or to a square to listen to music and dance.
........ Also, US mass murders are only 2% of the deaths due to guns. The rest is individual murders and suicides!
..........I am in favor of the 2nd amendment and having gun ownership for home protection, shooting targets, and hunting. I am NOT in favor of semi-automatic rifles that the NRA and the gun manufacturers PREFER because of high mark-up and profits paid for by the blood of children. Let's return to the 1950s when guns were for hunting game and NOT HUNTING PEOPLE !!!!!!!

Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2098806)

Guns have been around forever, but mass shootings are up during recent years. What’s different than before, social media and violent video games that are streamed online through sites like twitch. How come every time there is a violent shooting it becomes about guns, but when some whack job mows down a crowd of people with a car it’s not about vehicles? Whack jobs will always find a way, especially when they can become immediate social media click bait.

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2099288)

Not so sure availability of firearms is the cause. Understand there is a huge number of firearms owned by residents of the villages. When was the last time they were improperly used?

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2099291)

From about 1950 to 1985 if you read a Guns magazine, the articles were about where to hunt pheasants and deer - and what shotgun or bolt-action rifle was best for deer. Also some articles about hunting in Alaska, Canada, or even Africa. THEN, that all changed because the GUN MANUFACTURERS found out that fewer people were going hunting and that there were larger PROFITS to make in selling to FOOLS....... MILITARY-STYLE semi-automatics AKA MAN KILLERS !!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2098829)

When we were kids had pea shooters, carpet guns and cap pistols and we all carried around pocket knives even to school.

Had fish fights and noone even thought of taking out their knives.

Had all kind of cowboy and war movies and rather violent cartoons so we were also exposed to violence and we all survived.

There are over 400 million guns in this country how in the world would you get rid of them?

Have no clue how to fix this problem but defunding the police will not help.

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2099291)

From about 1950 to 1985 if you read a Guns magazine, the articles were about where to hunt pheasants and deer - and what shotgun or bolt-action rifle was best for deer. Also some articles about hunting in Alaska, Canada, or even Africa. THEN, that all changed because the GUN MANUFACTURERS found out that fewer people were going hunting and that there were larger PROFITS to make in selling to FOOLS....... MILITARY-STYLE semi-automatics AKA MAN KILLERS !!!!!!!

Originally Posted by MartinSE (Post 2098842)

350 million guns have not been around forever. And it is growing at historic rates, just like school shootings - coincidence? Number of guns has tripled since 2000. You remember 2000? The year after the first school shooting - Columbine.

Yeah, another thing that has changed, concerning what has changed, just a week ago wasn't it that the crazy quoted Replacement theory for killing 10 people.

Whack jobs are everywhere, in every country in every society. Only the US has mass shootings in school - constantly. Only in the US. What does the US have that no other country in the world has? 350 MILLION guns in circulation.

I have NOTHING against responsible gun owners or gun ownership. I can't think of ANY way 350 million guns can be collected. It is NOT going to happen.

So, how about we all get together and figure out a way to keep responsible gun owners happy and armed, while at the same time creating fewer mourning parents. 231 school shootings in the 22 years since Columbine.

Or, would everyone like to just keep calling each other naming and spewing "facts" like guns don't kill people. Yeah guns do nothing until a person picks it up, the gun is used to kill 21 people in under 2 minutes.

I have heard someone say crazies will find a way, like using a car to drive into a crowd. Yeah, true, and when was the last time a crazy drove a car into a crowded class room and killed 19 children?

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2099288)

Not so sure availability of firearms is the cause. Understand there is a huge number of firearms owned by residents of the villages. When was the last time they were improperly used?