School Shooting in South Florida

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dirtylemons said:

RingoGaSuki said:

It's not even stupidity at this point. The inaction and dumbfounding level of apathy with which the issue is treated that is the problem.

Americans always ready the typical responses. "Don't try to politicise a tragedy!", "Gun control? (Not even a complete ban, even a simple system of checks) SCREEEEEE", "We have to respect the second amendment! (Though the very word amendment itself means that it CAN be changed!)". 

 

Many Americans (great examples of which can be seen in this very thread), are completely irrational on this issue. Killing is a byproduct of human nature, but acting like controlling access to deadly weapons won't result in a lower number of deaths is ridiculous. 

I understand the power the NRA and other lobbyists hold with corrupt politicians, but it is not indestructible, nothing is. If you want to improve the state of your society, it needs to be dismantled. That's entirely possible. 

With few exceptions, the homicide rate in the U.S. has gone down every year for the past quarter-century (it's now half of what it was then). Apparently that can't be due to stricter gun laws, since most of the people in this thread claim nothing has been done to stop the killings. So how exactly do you explain this?

Crime rate in geral has seen a decrease each year. However mass shootings like this are still a persistent problem.