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sc94597 said:

vivster said:

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.

The bolded already exist nationwide, there is a lot of misinformation that is spread about what American gun laws do or do not exist. When there are 320+ million guns having more guns in the right hands is the only solution to protect law-abiding people. As has been said, by practically every American who has posted in this thread, gun crime is limited to certain areas of cities where drug activity is rampant. The majority of homicides are between these criminals, as unfortunate as that is. You can't put a dent in the gun supply of criminals. 

Terrorism is a separate issue, that all countries, regardless of their gun control policies have issues with. 

As someone who closely follows American politics I would like to disagree. As purported by every gun expert in the world, more civilians with guns will not solve gun violence. Because most civilians with guns aren't even able to effectively use them in an emergency. Gun control will do what it's supposed to do, limiting gun possession and gun availability.

If no civilian in the US would have a gun except for criminals you would not have more gun deaths, you would have a lot less. And if guns are less distributed it will be easier to track down illegal guns.

Saying that stricter laws will not do anything is a fallacy. It's like saying we don't need police because they can't prevent every crime.