Ka-pi96 said:
There isn't already universal background checks for people that want to buy guns? Yeah... that should be fixed asap! |
Gun control is a mess in the US. I'm actually legally allowed to sell to someone in the same state without needing to register it, meaning I can sell a gun to a potential criminal legally according to the ATF.
| mountaindewslave said: disturbing stuff. I wouldn't jump the gun though (no pun intended) regarding gun rights in the USA though. A huge amount of crimes are commited with guns sold on the black market or that have been stolen, so the concept that you could simply limit guns and have some massive effect is sort of naive. Bear in mind the size of the United States. If it's been impossible to stop the drug cartels from getting massive amount of goods into the states (despite the USA wasting billions to try and combat that with the DEA) then why on Earth do you think it would work with other things? not to mention, for every story of some madman massacring with a gun- there's a story of someone STOPPING a criminal because they had a gun for self defense. It goes both ways. Crazy people will always manage to kill in some shape or form. I think the higher frequency of it happening these days falls on two things: there are more and more people in the world and the MEDIA allows for people to get recognition (in a way) for committing crimes. It's like a payoff for them. Attention. That and 50 years ago when a crime occured you didn't necessarily hear about it that day because news was so much slower at getting around Anyway. Terrible tragedy, hope the families make it through the loss, and that the dead rest in peace. Impossible, at church of all things, to predict something like this happening. The shooter must be a real bastard |
Guns are used often to protect people, but let's not act as though regulating gun purchases doesn't make a difference. Even if the black market is still there, we can potentially decrease firearm homicides and the amount of suicides by introducing background checks and attempting to regulate sales.
There is a massive correlation between gun ownership and gun homicides per state, and we shouldn't do nothing about it because a mass shooting may occur. Mass shootings are <1% of all non-suicidal firearm homicides. Yes, a shooter will break out here and there, but the positive benefits of implementing gun restrictions cannot be ignored.
No one is arguing that we shouldn't allow guns. They definitely are used often in self defense and can be used positively (along with helping people being less prone to attacks). We may simply need better laws to not have the US' firearm homicide rate be ridiculously large in comparison to other high income countries
