You can tell you've never spent a significant amount of time here.

I don't have to to know how I feel about the concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University_shooting

Outside just being wrong... mass shootings and murders in general are such random outliers of society it would be irresponsible to consider the ability to be able to judge if the occurence of such things are really increasing or decreasing for any reason or just do to dumb statistical luck average wise.

Goddamned Al Capone!

In a lot of areas, the Police just don't give a shit.  It's why people feel the need to be armed in this country...the police don't have any real obligation to help you.  What they care about most is looking out for themselvse, so they won't get anywhere until WAAAAAY after they're sure everyone has bailed.  (Unless it's a situation where they think they'll be able to spot the agressors easy.  EX Rich white neighberhood.)

and if you have something on your record and your trying to report a crime against you?  They're just as likely to arrest you for some shit like a warrant on a parking ticket as they are help your ass.

I once had to call in a fucking domestic violence dispute happening INSIDE my store.

I get a phone call back two and a half hours later....  "Are they still there?"

It's like... "the fuck do you think?  That he just has been wailing on her the last 2 and a half hours waiting for you guys to show up."

The Wild West actually had EXTREMELY strict gun laws.

In most towns in the Wild West you were not allowed to have guns within city limits.

The shootout at the OK Coral happened because Claborne and his crew would not reliquish their guns to Wyatt Earp as was Tombstone's law. 

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/23/nation/la-na-tombstone-20110123

Gun control didn't help to stop the violence their either.

It just made it easier to ambush people in taverns and such, since you could just walk up to them and shoot them since they would be unarmed.

Two people dead, that's not a mass shooting.

So it's a total coincidence that after a massive clampdown on guns, the next 17 years pass without a mass shooting? Please.

My teacher has, he visits ever year.

Had a gun pulled on him in Chicago.

He shot 7 people and had five guns ready to shoot more people.  You are essentially hanging your hat on a technicality.

and... yes.   Yes it is a coincidence. 

I mean ask yoruself this.  With the gun laws... is it actually hard to get guns.  If you wanted to get guns illegally to shoot up soemthing, would this be particularly hard for you to find?

Would you be afraid of the gun laws in attempting to find guns for your plan to massacre a bunch of people?

Have their been many cases where mass shootings have been stopped by the police catching people trying to get guns?

All 3 answers are no.. correct?

People obviously aren't afraid of gun laws if they know the end result of what they plan to do is death/life in prison anyway.

It's easy to get ANYTHING on the black market... and there aren't a ton of cases of prevention.

There is a correlation, but there is literally no datapoints that show causation.

Which has some of the restrictive gun laws in the US. Funny thing how criminals will still get guns regardless of the laws and regulations you have.

As many have said, areas with less gun control generally have much less violent crime for obvious reasons.