So the ever modest President has met pupils from Florida who managed to escape the latest mass school shooting. That is good of him. We seem to hear about these shootings every week in the USA.
His answer? Allegedly, arm the teachers. Why not ask the basic questions about USA gun crimes instead? The USA seems to have more school mass killings by far than anywhere else. Does no-one want to understand why this is? Could it be something to do with the ease of obtaining deadly weapons perhaps? Better checks, yes. Why sell automatic weapons in the first place? Why sell guns?
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43149694
22 Feb 2018
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I think this may help to some extent answer the question as to why many Americans own guns and assault rifles in particular, and I have to agree there is some merit to the comments in this article.
https://armedcitizensnetwork.org/why-american-citizens-need-assault-rifles
The gun violence here has now become the chicken and the egg kind of issue in my opinion and has grown to a point that many feel the need to own weapons(too many baddies with guns, and they are not buying them at the gun shops). I read local stories more and more frequently of armed home invasions here in the US in the city I live in. Some are being stopped by a home owner with a gun.
I certainly don't think teachers with guns is the right answer, they are not paid well enough for the important role they play in society as it is. The question is how to keep these out of the hands of the wrong people. Many other countries choose to do this by keeping them out of the hands of all citizens, and that may very well be the right answer give the inability to control this in other methods.
As a father of two young children this really scares me and I want to see something done. We are past the time of just talking about the issue and we need to make a real change.
Well I'm afraid I don't have the answers. I just think a wonderful country is being spoilt by too many guns. Every American I have ever met has been kind and generous.
I feel sorry for Norway: https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/
Yeah, it's crazy. There was an armed guard at the school, and he did nothing (except hide). Plus, the problem isn't just schools -- it's churches, concerts, and even a military base.
I was at the grocery store last month when a "good guy with a gun" left his safety off. His holster was "tricky", he explained, after his pistol went off and fired a round into the floor as he bent over to get something from the lowest shelf. Basically, he laughed the whole thing off, as if he had broken wind or something.
You would have to be a complete moron to feel safer with this clown around.
And there lies one of the major problems, any idiot can own a gun and carry it in most states. To get my amateur license I had to take several tests with a fair depth of knowledge so I can transmit an RF signal. To get a permit to carry in most states, you send in a form with a little bit of money and as long as you aren't a convicted felon a few months later you get your permit. There should be lengthy training/testing process and a moderate to high entry cost to get a permit to carry, same should probably hold true to just purchase a gun. Just make sure the costs really do cover the costs of administration so tax payers are not footing the bill.
The US really needs to revisit the 2nd Amendment which is the root of the entire problem. It alone has resulted with every generation for decades and decades growing up with this insane gun mentality. The NRA has twisted and politicized the 'right to bear arms' and all political parties receive huge donations from them to further their own agendas. The whole system is sick and getting sicker every year, as can be seen by the ever-increasing gun violence. In reality, it may just be too late to ever recover from the nightmare that the corrupted interpretation of the 2nd Amendment continues to feed as every nook and cranny is now flooded with weapons of every description. If it is ever to change, it will either be through exceptionally difficult introspection and legislation never before even contemplated or through bloody conflict. It is incredible to witness this powerful democracy struggling on the verge of chaos and with what appears to be the dumbest President ever elected.
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