Quote from: Flying Hellfish on August 05, 2019, 09:40:10 PM

Quote from: otrkid1970 on August 05, 2019, 08:47:34 PM

Get rid of the guns? Then only the criminals will be armed.

If having MOAR guns made a country safer then the USA would have the least number of mass shootings. Since the exact opposite is true the rest of the developed world decided to listen to the facts and that their citizens lives were more important that gun manufacture's profit!

Unless of course there is another dependent factor you are leaving out, such as over prescription of medication and lack of mental health treatment. McAfee raised an interesting question recently.

"Why have people become so angry, hostile and alienated that they need to murder total strangers? That's the question, people. We need to answer that first."

Quote from: vladimirhf on August 05, 2019, 08:48:18 PM

Quote from: TECSHARE on August 04, 2019, 10:07:07 PM

I wasn't aware it was a requirement to be sick to consume medication.

yes it is.

Quote from: TECSHARE on August 04, 2019, 10:07:07 PM

The fact is the USA is the most medicated nation on Earth. Everyone wants to pretend this is not a factor, instead opting for the personification of inanimate objects, blaming them for the acts of mass shooters, the majority of which are on some kind of psychotropic drug with the known side effects of suicidal and homicidal ideation.

well, mass stabbing is a little harder to perform, but you're partially right, it's not only the guns, it's also the violent, racist culture.

What about setting buildings on fire? Improvised explosives? Poison? Running people over with trucks? The fact is modern life gives everyone ample opportunity to use these tools to harm people if they choose to. The problem is not the tool they use, it is the motivation behind it. If all we are doing is taking tools away we still have homicidal people only killing people using different tools, and people less able to defend themselves. That is even assuming that gun control will keep illegal guns out of their hands at all, which is arguable since if some one is willing to murder they don't much care about violating gun laws.