| shikamaru317 said: I find it strange that both shootings occurred in Orlando. Could be a coincidence, but they could have been related. Maybe the first shooting was supposed to be a mass shooting too, but got interrupted by Christina's brother tackling the gunman. |
It's not strange, just statistics. There are so many shootings in the US every week, it's bound to happen in the same city in the same week. It probably happens even more frequently because shootings aren't even widely reported anymore. Something that happens every day is just not newsworthy.
Americans can defend their gun culture all day long. Their main argument is that it would not help. But would it do any harm to have at least basic common sense laws like background checks and bans on guns in certain public places? But instead some states are even loosening their gun safety laws because more guns is always better than less guns amiright? The joke is that the vast majority of the population including gun owners are for stricter gun laws. But the gun lobby is too strong and politicians just love to pander to radical minorities.
Guns are not the main reason for these disasters. They're just the symptom of a broken political system rife with corruption, a broken partisan judicial system and the indoctrination of their youth with nationalism, religion and radical ideologies so that it will never have a chance to change.
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