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Two questions. What percentage of gun deaths are caused by mass shootings in the United States? What do you think should be changed about the current gun laws?
What do you think should be changed about the current gun laws?
originally posted by: WeRpeons
a reply to: Alien Abduct
Two questions. What percentage of gun deaths are caused by mass shootings in the United States? What do you think should be changed about the current gun laws?
The percentage of gun deaths caused by mass shootings don't have any relevance compared to the number of lives taken in the act of mass shootings and crimes committed with a gun. To compare a smaller percentage of deaths attributed to mass shootings compared to the total amount of deaths based upon deaths committed by other means in the United States is a ridiculous comparison. It basically trying to reduce the impact of mass shootings by comparing such nonsense.
Here's a link to basic statistics on gun violence and mass shootings in America. The statistics are nothing less than alarming.
How U.S. Gun Culture Compares to the World.
What do you think should be changed about the current gun laws?
I side with the same gun law changes that the Parkland Students are fighting for...
-A ban on semi-automatic weapons that fire high-velocity rounds
-A ban on bump stocks and other accessories that simulate automatic weapons
-The creation of a database for gun sales and universal background checks
-Raise the legal age to purchase guns to 21
-Close the gun show loophole and loophole for second-hand gun sales
originally posted by: craterman
You are correct in that we should not have a standing army. That is also a huge problem with the US of A today. But reducing rights is not the fix to that problem.
a reply to: DJW001
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Byrd
What I'm thinking is that he hardly has a monopoly on it.
Is he the only one who has suffered harm from guns, or rather the assholes using them? I can safely assure you that he isn't.
His history doesn't make him suddenly some font of all wisdom. I disagree with him. Rather strongly, though I don't think I really need to say that...
He's entitled to his opinion. I think he's badly mistaken. The moment someone in that crowd comes up with something original to solve the issues before us of violence in schools, let me know. I've heard nothing original in the past 15 years. I learned what works long before that. It's called standing up to the bullies/cowards who think it's their right to inflict pain and suffering upon those they deem weaker than themselves.
If some of these oh, so concerned students were to turn their attention to the issues of peer to peer bullying in the classrooms and hallways of the schools in this country, the issues of school violence, not just these horrific shootings, would be curtailed to a shocking degree.
This whole episode is designed to appeal to emotion. Who doesn't get emotional about people getting killed by some madman with a gripe? I certainly do, so do you. That's what's being appealed to here, raw emotion. Get so emotional we react without thinking. What's that old saying? Act in haste, repent at leisure...?
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
So, these kids are saying they want the legal age to buy guns raised and a person isn't mature enough at 18 to buy some/all firearms, but then how would a 14-18 yr old be mature enough to understand the complexities of the gun debate other than what they have been told. When I was 16 I watched a lot of football games, and played in a number, but I wouldn't even begin to think that I should make policy in NCAA or NFL.
Even if there were an "assualt weapons" ban, such as during 1999 when Columbine happened, did that stop that incident? How do these people think restricting one (or a few) guns is going to stop this, it's like banning a few models of cars because they have been involved in lots of traffic accidents (they are the most popular models & appeal to risky drivers) while 90% of the accidents were drug/drunk/texting related. Outlawing the car is analogous to banning the gun(s).
Do the marchers not understand this or do they just have deeper ulterior motives?
You are assuming that any of these children even understand what is going on.
They are just innocents being fed talking points, children being used by the left to further a political agenda.
I am willing to bet that the same 30 year old talking points that they now magically know were sitting in pamphlet form waiting to be deployed before the shooting even happened.
The March of Soros.
I hope some time soon that real liberals start kicking the Marxists out of their party.
It's getting old.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Byrd
The reason you see people dig in on guns is because, as evidenced by Parkland, there are myriad laws that are currently ignored that could stem the tide of violence in the US. But they aren't. Instead, we want to restrict lawful citizens.
It just baffles me how this can even be a suggestion.