It's a start. Unfortunately they are of the belief everyone has a right to defend themselves by any means necessary. You had a young mum who got shot because their child went in their handbag. They tried to justify that sadly. It's in their dna now and too far gone for any rational reasoning. Lives don't mean much nowdays sadly. That's how sad this has become.
They have to start somewhere - just the will to tackle the problem would be a start. Hell, even the acknowledgement that there is a problem would be something. No civilian has any right to assault weapons. They're not for hunting, they're not for self-defence, they are simply a weapon of war. As ever it's down to money, there are just so many big profits to be made from other people's misery.
It'd be possible to say so much about this, how the arms industry is so central to the country's economy and culture, how guns of all kinds have become so rampant and recklessly attainable, the lack of political inaction around the issue and no urgency to address it and stop this happening over and over again, the failings in their policing, enforcement and premature dealing with likely shooters. And I'm not even saying this from the perspective of a potential ban on guns ... It's simply a national disgrace for them
In the poorer neighbourhoods it's the mail man or fed ex guy that has sex with all the bored housewives.
Instead of a Mexican wall.... automatic/semi weapon amnesty with those handing in being paid twice the cost price of the weapon ...legal or illegal. After it's over? Anyone found with an auromatic/semi weapon gets 30 years in prison. No one removing right to bear arms just what type. Limit the amount of ammunition any one person can have at one time to 12 bullets. Limit the amount of handguns each person can own to ....1. If the US really wanted it...its possible. But they dont. Not really. For all the polls showing 80% this and that..for all the prayers and handwrangling... they vote for people in the NRA's pockets. So they just don't think it's an issue.
That's exactly what I've been hearing... It's ridiculous. It borders on as insane as the suggestion to give every nation nukes so that noone will wage war again.
There is a registry of who bought what guns legally. Start with that. Still be a lot of guns in the wild, but each year there would be gradually fewer. It will take a long time for gun crime to become rare... But you have to start somewhere.
That's what north Korean forces would do per the movie red dawn.... the remake cos everyone knows the original with a Mexican army is just plain ridiculous
The constitutional right to bear arms is obviously an anachronism that couldn't foresee the destructive power of modern firearms, but it is always cited as a fundamental right. You can imagine in a few decades the same types declaring their "fundamental right" to have tactical nukes in their back yards, once the manufacturers can get them down to a reasonable price.
The right to bear arms as stated in the US constitution "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Just make it illegal to hold firearms unless in a legally licenced militia.
People already don't have the right to bear landmines, biological or chemical weapons, or weapons of mass destruction. #infringed
Crazy isn't it? This link is a couple of years old now, but the figures are staggering. No idea what the current numbers are. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34424385
Just read this at work. Appalling really http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Lynette_White_Cardiff_Murder long read but how the **** does justice not get done over some paperwork. Police corruption at it's worse.
everyone who has even passing knowledge of the case has known for a very long time that it was a blatant miscarriage of justice. When the pressure is on someone was going to get charged and normally found guilty
