Forgot your password?

superyooser's Journal: Response to gun violence 3

Journal by superyooser



* Click the first link: 19 killed in Rio shantytown shootout

God bless the families of the victims.


Response to gun violence

Comments Filter:
  • The German one: But we have little reason to point an accusing finger at the Americans. Despite strict gun legislation, we (in Germany) have experienced the school shootings in Erfurt and Emsdetten. We have to consider the problems in our society. And we have to take care of our fellow humans."

    So we have proof that more gun laws aren't going to take care of the problem.

    Of course, he opened with this gem: There,(in the US) buying a machine gun is often easier than getting a driver's license.
  • This guy had proveable mental problems that were showing up over the last 4 years. Had *anybody* at the gun store done a through background search, he wouldn't have been allowed to have a gun. They only did a criminal background search, and the kid had a green card, and they didn't do any search for indications of mental illness (I don't even know if Virginia has the INFRASTRUCTURE needed for such a background search, I know Oregon doesn't since we lost funding for mental illness). This is far more about
  • I actually look at this as a prime example of why gun control has failed. If just ONE of the students, faculty, or others on campus had a gun, it would have been a much different story. Sure, shoot-outs are a side-effect, but which is worse?

    32 innocents and one gunmen dead, or,

    10 innocents, 2 bystanders hit by stray bullets, and one gunmen dead?

    I can think of at least 20 families that would go with option B

Help fight continental drift.