Disgruntled employee shoots nine, killing one and is then shot dead by police. The Second Amendment has a lot to answer for... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...empirestatebre87n0m2-20120824,0,4180453.story
Bloody Americans, why such a hot headed nation are allowed to own firearms willy nilly is beyond me, they'll never learn.
I have owned a firearm for ten years and it's amazing how I and hundreds of thousands of other law abiding citizens have managed to not run out and murder someone.
America take the moral high ground when something like this or the cinema shootings happens on foreign soil, sometimes they need to look that bit closer to home first.
It's not clear the guy actually shot all those people...it was possibly the police... Still, if EVERYONE was made to carry a gun, stuff like this wouldn't happen because then anyone could take the perp down... ...according to the NRA who is the most powerful lobby group in the US. Amazing really, due to the way US politics work, there is no way in hell will anything ever be done to tighten up US gun laws. The politicians can't go up against the NRA, those that do, lose.
Not really, but is it worth you having that right so every few months a disturbed individual can abuse that amendment to go and kill more innocent people than he could have if it was illegal? I don't know many massacres it takes before the USA wakes up to this simple fact, by the looks of it a seemingly endless amount.
After the Dark Knight massacres some spokesman from NRA brigade kept coming out with the ludicrous argument that there should be more places where you should be able carry a gun and then maybe someone would have killed him before he had killed so many people. Yeah because allowing people more places to carry firearms under no suspicion whatsoever wouldn't suit people wanting to murder large amounts of innocent people. I wonder what their argument is this time?
Just because guns are illegal doesn't mean massacres won't happen. Look at Norway. To be honest, I haven't even fired mine for probably four years. I used to be really into it but I got bored with it. It's locked up in a case in a closet above all of my sports jerseys. If their was a good way to regulate it I'd be for outlawing them but it will never happen in America. Our politics are a shame, really.
Yes it doesn't make them not happen altogether, but it's pretty obvious they happen a lot more often in USA than in firearm regulated countries.
Jeez I was at the Empire State building a few days ago, there but for fortune I guess. Very few Americans (especially in the cities ) own guns but its the nutters who do that worry us all, Clinton tried to bring in gun law and was outvoted by the both the senate and house of representatives.
Let everyone in the US carry a gun like the wild west. Then if they know someone can shoot back they might think again (tongue firmly in cheek)
We should all be allowed to have guns in England, This bloke cut me up on Holderness road the other day and he definitely deserved to get ****ing plugged!
From The Simpsons right-wing rocker Ted Nugent to support calls for school children to carry weapons. "If we don't allow crossbows in our schools, how will we protect our children from charging elk?" he asked,
Even though I think guns should be controlled a lot tighter in the USA, I get the feeling it is a bit like plane crashes, because so many people are killed at once, it gets big publicitiy, whereas many more are killed on the roads, but because generally it is not so big numbers it is reported on a much lower key.
Me? Or the bloke that cut me up? I'm 100% English with a Scottish mother with Spanish thrown in a few hundred years ago, He looked like he might have been from West Hull!
I seriously recommend this to anyone with a spare couple of hours. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bowling-for-columbine/ It discusses how Americans are simply more violent than most other nations.
