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Kasz216 on 14 December 2012
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arcane_chaos said:
Kasz216 said:
arcane_chaos said:

the thing that saddens me is that in recent memory we've had
The Arizona shooting
Aurora Theater shotting
2 mall shootings
and now this

and yet no real talk about gun control/ban WTF!?

That would be bcause gun control/bans would be an illogical topic considering the science and statistics is against such an arguement.

and to bring it up, really just crass emotional arguement in the worst possible tatse... people who do should really be ashamed of themselves.


I would just like to see the conversation brought up not after we have a tragedy like this, it just pains me that we had a tragedy just like this during the election; the Aurora theater shooting, it became a hot topic for about a week or two and just vanished...

I don't know how old you are... but in general there used to be a pretty big gun debate.

It pretty much died away after pretty much all the research on the subject showed that guns availability really wasn't a factor in crimes in general, and surprisingly crime and violent crme showed a negative correlation with gun ownership.  (IE, more guns, less crimes, less murders.)

Which isn't really THAT suprising when you consider only like... 5% of guns are ever used in any kind of illegal activity.   Let alone a situation like a spree murder, where they are so rare, that you average like around 2 a year... in a country with a population as high as ours.

 

In general, violent crime seems to be caused by drugs and income disparity.

 

Now the real question is... what's up with the Mass Shootings NOW.  Gun laws haven't changed?  So why would you go there?   I'd think a better question would be... why have there been so many in one year?

 

I mean, it might just be population growth, might be something else... but that's a productive question to ask.