| Chrkeller said: Still incredible to me that ease of access is considered, by some, a non factor. |
Yeah I think it's the most important factor. Let's put it this way, if other western countries suddenly had the same ease of access to guns as US, in no-time there'd be much more mass shootings, gun crime and police killing more people.
Mass killings happen in EU too but it's usually knife/sword attacks, driving a truck into crowd, bombs, crossbows etc. There's handguns and rifles but they don't do as much damage as quickly. If there was assault weapons easily available these would happen much more frequently and be more deadly.
In my opinion gun control is the most important step US needs to take. It won't stop all killings and maybe it doesn't have an immediate effect, but in the long run it'll significantly reduce mass killings and also other gun related deaths and deaths by police.
Next step is to figure out what the hell breeds these assholes, why is our society so fucked up. That's a though one.
