the idiots in my neighborhood were shooting off automatic weapons into the sky at midnight, went on for quite a while
Florida toddler fatally shoots himself with father's gun while parents load car http://gu.com/p/455t3
Yeah they have a right to carry guns in the US, they also think they have a right to shoot any ****er they don't like. Morons.
It's a very interesting mentality, the first thought is to go for the gun and then ask questions later. Isnt there some kind of crazy stat about the amount of times a year a family member is shot going into their own home because someone there thinks its a burglar? That says it all, shoot first and then worry about who you've shot.
Wild west mentality prevails. Just as a matter of interest, do they give the same amounts of bows and arrows to their kids? I remember when I was a kid you got them with rubber suckers to stick on walls and the like. Occasionally they stuck on foreheads as well but it didn't usually kill anybody!
There definitely is way to much gun related deaths in the USA. I firmly believe that they should be banned. But it's not just about banning them. It's changing people's mentality. That could take generations.
For most of the time I spent living in the USA I was blissfully unaware of the ubiquity of guns. But there were a couple of events that brought home the dangers to me. One involved my son, who was just coming up to his 2nd birthday. We were visiting the grandparents and a ball we had been playing with rolled under a sofa. My son tried to reach it but couldn't. When I went to retrieve it, I found a loaded handgun that I didn't realize my father-in-law owned.
Perhaps if every child in the US got hold of their parents gun & shot them dead accidentally the US might change their gun laws.....but with the gun lobby financially supporting so many Republicans I still doubt it
The gun companies finance the Republican party, it will never happen....even if thousands were killed by guns in the US....oh hang on...they already are (around 34000 a year)
The U.S gets a bad reputation for this sort of thing, largely driven by the media highlighting tragic accidents as mentioned on this thread. Actually in reality gun deaths are significantly lower in the U.S than most South American countries, for example gun deaths as a percentage of the population are 1/3 of what they are in Columbia, half of what they are in Brazil and even 1/6 of what they are in Honduras..
Hardly a fair comparison, the US are supposed to be a civilised 1st world society not a 3rd world one....this year gun deaths in the USA are set to exceed road deaths for the first time
I'm sure Katie Hopkin's would have an opinion on this, and I'm sure she would say something like "Gun crime in the USA is a good way to control the nations population, idiots killing off other idiots." or something along them lines.
What do you mean by third world? That term is wrongly used to stereotype poor, uncivilised countries, when actually it refers to countries not aligned with NATO or the Communist Block in the Cold War. Being a third world country has little to do with being civilised and thus as no relevance when comparing gun deaths.
