11 USA school shootings in this month alone January 2018

[royalharris]

USA education system train good gun shooters

 

[Sh@msu]

freedom strikes.
Until people get out of delusion of freedom choco and impose strict to strictest laws it will keep happening.
This is what wrong ideology of freedom does,the ideology based on a wretched book they call constitution written by some of biggest retard of centuries full with la la sentences of so called freedom.
Burn that book,tear that book apart and throw it in garbage.
This is result of radical freedom.
It is time to defend freedomists against freedom's destructive idelogy.

US should do more to curb terrorism.

It is mental health problem,NOTHING TO DO with freedom and terrorism.

 

[淼淼De微笑]

Free to shoot in USA

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

If you suspect any sign of danger. Just pop out the gun and shoot. You die is better than I get killed.

If I was living in the USA I would definitely get a gun. At this point it's basically kill or be killed.

 

[Bilal9]

I have noticed that when I talk to some American members like @gambit and @Bilal9 they seem to brush off the risks of American gun culture. Have shootings really become so normalized over there?

American Gun culture is mainly concentrated in Southern States where open carrying of weapons is legally allowed.

In California and other West Coast 'civilized' states, as well as the East Coast, both of where ratio of uneducated people is higher, this is not an issue. Incidentally, those are the states where most Asian Immigrants live.

Contrary to popular belief of foreigners, US is not a gun-crazy country.

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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."

Carrying guns for self protection is guaranteed under the constitution (open/concealed carry is prohibited in some states). But in the near future, there might be more stringent controls in some states on WHO might be able to purchase and use a gun (meaning their soundness of mental health as well as standing in society).

If you have a criminal background, you cannot purchase a gun legally - period.

 

[xenon54 out]

Simple...do what the UK did and send all the troublemakers to Australia. After doing that the perceived need to own a gun would plummet.

The reasons for gun ownership vary
1) if you live in a high crime inner-city neighborhood gun ownership is high.
2) if you live in a low crime suburb gun ownership is low.
3) If you live in a rather sparsely populated area gun ownership goes up again because you may feel you are so isolated nobody may come to your help if there is trouble.

Gun problems usually happen in areas 1 and 3.

Yeah but flooding the market with guns isnt the answer either but arms industry is too strong in US i guess.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

If I had a penny for evertime an American terrorits used mental health excuse I'd be a really rich man.

freedom strikes.
Until people get out of delusion of freedom choco and impose strict to strictest laws it will keep happening.
This is what wrong ideology of freedom does,the ideology based on a wretched book they call constitution written by some of biggest retard of centuries full with la la sentences of so called freedom.
Burn that book,tear that book apart and throw it in garbage.
This is result of radical freedom.
It is time to defend freedomists against freedom's destructive idelogy.


It is mental health problem,NOTHING TO DO with freedom and terrorism.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

So where is America going to send their troublemakers?

Right now it is prison.

Canada has a high rate of gun ownership, but they have a low number of gun-related homicides?

Check out their prison and population demographics compared to the US for the last 50 years.
BTW gun ownership rates in the US are triple that of Canada. Also:https://ualawccsprod.srv.ualberta.c...-in-canada-supreme-court-will-not-hear-appeal

 

[PeaceGen]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42804741

Two schoolchildren died on Tuesday and 14 others suffered bullet wounds when a classmate opened fire outside a school in Benton, Kentucky. It was the third US school shooting in 48 hours and the 11th in the three weeks since the start of the year.

The victims were Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, both 15. A 15-year-old boy was arrested and charged with the attack.

The story fell somewhere into the middle of the day's news agenda. "Americans have accepted these common atrocities as part of life here," wrote one commenter on the New York Times website. "Another day, another shooting spree, and no political will to do anything about it."

But there is political will building behind a certain sort of gun legislation — reforms that aim to increase, rather than decrease, the number of firearms in schools and other public buildings, and arm teachers and school staff as a means of defence.

Hours after the shooting in Kentucky, Republican State Senator Steve West rushed to file a bill that would allow Kentucky schools to have armed school marshals patrol the site. His bill joins another in the state which seeks to loosen gun restrictions around college campuses.

Mr West's bill received cross-party support from state Democratic Senator Ray Jones. "We need armed officers in every school in Kentucky," Mr Jones said. "That is a small price to pay if it saves one child's life."

The bill joins a raft of state legislation in recent years designed at putting more guns in schools. Most recently, the Michigan State Senate passed a bill in November which would allow teachers at primary, middle and high schools to carry a concealed handgun in class. Similar bills have been filed this year in Florida, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia.

If successful, those states would join at least nine that already allow some form of concealed carry in high schools. Each fatal school shooting reignites a long-running debate over whether the solution is more gun control, or more guns.

"If we want to talk about preventing school shootings, we should be talking about stopping kids getting their hands on guns in the first place," said Adam Skaggs, chief counsel at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "Those are the laws we should be looking at."


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So now they are going to give lethal firearms to the teachers as well?

deterrence could well work.

but right now it's an epidemic.
it needs attention.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

This phenomenon is because of deteriorating psychological health of Americans. They are turning into spoilt brats, they fight people if their coffee is made the wrong way.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

This phenomenon is because of deteriorating psychological health of Americans. They are turning into spoilt brats, they fight people if their coffee is made the wrong way.

Is this the case? Could it have something to do with the US over reliance on pharmaceutical medications? Or is that actually not the cause but the result of something else, i.e. they are trying to self-medicate due to feeling something else is wrong.

@TaiShang I would be interested in your views on the topic of America's gun culture.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Is this the case? Could it have something to do with the US over reliance on pharmaceutical medications? Or is that actually not the cause but the result of something else, i.e. they are trying to self-medicate due to feeling something else is wrong.

@TaiShang I would be interested in your views on the topic of America's gun culture.

Why not ask somebody who actually lives here.
I’ll meet you half way. Have @faithfulguy give his opinion instead.

 

[faithfulguy]

US shall allowed every time dick Harry Americans to arm themselves with gun. Every school children shall bring a gun to school to protect themselves. If you suspect any sign of danger. Just pop out the gun and shoot. You die is better than I get killed.

US do allow its citizens to own guns. But certain states put restrictions in carrying them.

Why not ask somebody who actually lives here.
I’ll meet you half way. Have @faithfulguy give his opinion instead.

This issue is too complicated. All this gun incidents are marginal cases as this is a 300+ million people country. But we do have bad gang infested neighborhoods. Just stay away from those places and there would be no problem. All these reporting on gun violence are political reporting instead of a social issue.

 

[fallstuff]

If I was living in the USA I would definitely get a gun. At this point it's basically kill or be killed.

You can get this AR-15 for $499 right now online !!
https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/products2.cfm/ID/166590

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Contrary to popular belief of foreigners, US is not a gun-crazy country.

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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."

There are a lot of countries in the world with high gun ownership rates, but they don't have anywhere near the gun-related homicide rate of the USA?