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RE: Las Vegas shooting, at least 20 dead and 100 wounded - who was the shooter? Update: 58 dead.
Horrifying news to wake up to, and to watch the body count rise, initially 2, then 20, now +50 ....
... of course everyone is shocked, and the USA will be for a few days, but then life will go back to normal and no steps will be taken to reduce access by bad people to automatic rounds or guns, etc. Sick of it, the massacres and sick of the rhetoric and the lack of progress.
And then of course there will be a-holes stating it is a conspiracy theory, like the ones claiming to parents of dead children in Sandy Hook that the parents were part of the conspiracy.
Another bad day for humanity.
Thanks for your comment. I don't agree with your anti-gun argument. Criminals will be able to get a hold of guns if its legal or illegal. Most guns who kill people are not legally registered weapons. If this guy wanted to get an AK47 he could have gotten that illegally. In Europe incidents of terrorist-attacks are increasing, and no one is allowed to wear even a knife on the streets of Europe. Still criminals kill each other with assault rifles - even in Scandinavia. Bank robbers hold up banks with grenades and machine guns. They don't give a shit if its illegal or not - they use illegal weapons regardless.
In some instances, allowing the general population to wear weapons could have hindered many terrorist attacks. 6 years ago Anders Breivik killed 92 young people on an Island in Norway. If just some of the organizers had a gun they could have stopped him from killing that many people.
I am not sure what your argument is so I can not disagree or agree.
Some things to consider:
Look at the examples from Australia which passed laws twenty years ago and has experienced zero mass shooting since then.
Ok this is a comedy show, but with a serious bent. They study what happens when "good guys" are also given easy access to guns.
Just because bad people will always do bad things does not mean there should not be policies in place to help lower them.
I have been to the US, many times and have shot guns and gone fishing there. It was much, much, much tougher to get a fishing license there than it is to buy a gun. That does not make sense to me.
No that's OK. There should be licenses and criteria to buy a gun. But people should be allowed to defend themselves.
Take for instance Sweden. Their country is flooding with criminals from all over the world. Rape rates are skyrocketing, murders, violence. And the police has resigned. In many areas you are left on your own. But you're not allowed to own a weapon. Where is the decency in that?
My argument is that bad people get guns either way. In Europe we are not allowed to own guns. You can own hunting rifles or shotgun, but no self defense weapons. We are being flooded with terrorists, ISIS-members and criminals. And we are not allowed to protect ourselves. People are being chopped to pieces on subway stations and trains. And no one has a gun to help or protect. Not even the freaking police in many countries - although that is changing these days.
In Switzerland we all have military grade guns at home ... and gun violence is rare. That could be the reason.
It most definitely could.