| John2290 said: I'm not getting into this debate, don't want the hassle or the headache but you are the only country that has this recurring problem at this scale and it ain't the guns man, guns are just a tool, sort the minds that get to the point of pulling that trigger or figure out the factors that cause them to do it. |
Then don't comment in the thread. The whole "guns are just a tool" thing is so stupid. It's called a school shooting for a reason, it has to be done with a gun. And other forms of weaponry are nowhere near as efficient as guns. So how are guns not part of the problem?
Saying that we should just teach people not to commit mass shootings doesn't even make sense. Because if we didn't teach people, and the lack of teaching was a systemic issue, then mass shootings would be even more common then they already are. If people literally lacked the self awareness not to commit a mass shooting because they were never raised in an environment where it was brought up or where it had a negative connotation, then we would see mass shootings all the time because by that logic the problem is that american parents just don't teach their kids not to commit mass shootings. But those environments are non-existent in a public setting, these shooters didn't NOT know to commit mass shootings, they knew exactly what they were doing and knew it was wrong.
The issue is more about mental health but even that feels more like a strawman to wiggle out of gun legislation. Nobody is saying that there isn't an issue with the mental health of school shooters and that guns just magically made them shoot up schools. What people ARE saying is that a part of the solution IS to stop the shootings by getting rid of easily accessible guns that should obviously be restricted. And I don't think you get the irony in saying that this is only an american issue, while then saying it has nothing to do with guns. Yeah .....
