Really? This guy thinks MORE guns is going to lower shootings? What a fucking idiot. The reason the U.S. has so many shootings is BECAUSE there are so many guns there.

Use simple logic, get rid of guns, and murder rates will drop drastically.

Moderated - Miguel_Zorro

 Of course we don't need everyone on base open carrying. Every base has it's own form of security. Recruiting centers, on the other hand, do not. They're smack dab in the middle of civilian populations, where someone can ignore the "gun free zone" signs and walk right in and do their business. Not only is that extremely dangerous for recruiters, but it's also dangerous for applicants and other civilians that may be there as well. 

Or Australia. or New Zealand. Or Japan. Or the UK.

Well 1 because there are already over 400 million guns in circulation in the US. how to plan on making those disappear.

2 even ifif you somehow made hundreds of millions of guns disappear. We have a completely open and pourous southern border. How do you expect we stop the influx of weapons from this dangerous open border.

And lastly and most importantly because its an unalianable human right.

Isn't it better to try to change society and the massive social issues rather than arming the entire population? Seems like treating symptoms rather than disease to me. Everyone has a gun so everyone needs a gun because it's dangerous since everyone has guns, that's hardly master class problem solving in my opinion.

all us-americans should have guns, preferably german made :)

that said I wouldn't ever want to live in a gun culture, I feel much safer with everybody disarmed

absolutely not, gun ownership is not a human right, there is nothing about that in the human rights bill and the inclusion of sth like that would be preposterous

It is impossible to do with the culture that America has. If the USA was split into two, it might be possible, but as it is right now it is pretty much impossible. 

I agreed with your post until that last bit of head-scratching rhetoric.  It's not an "unalianable human right," it's a privilege given by legislature.  It can be, and often is, taken away for justifiable reasons, which means that it is not inalienable by definition.  That is, unless you believe that convicted murderers should be allowed to own firearms.

That aside, hate guns or love guns, an outright ban would take a very long time to have an effect, and that's even assuming that we could stop contraband, which we probably can't.  It's simply not a realistic answer.

Personally, though I own rifles and shotguns, I'd love to see handguns disappear.  They aren't, though.

The most attractive solution would be to do something about gun culture in the United States but that's not going to happen, either.  It's completely ingrained in the psyche of this country, from cowboys to rappers.  From a gun violence perspective, it's probably too late for the United States.

When a few kids are throwing rocks at all the other kids. The best option is to give all the kids in the playground rocks so they can defend themselves...

For most it's not an irrational fear of guns, it's a very rational fear of other people (especially with guns).