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Old 10-02-2015, 08:22 PM
 
Location: Where else but London
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Your culture and psyche is so embedded in guns and violence, that it would take generations to breed out of you lot. I mean there was a time people had a reason to go postal, now you people can't tell the difference watching a movie and acting out a movie in public.

Oh well, until the next one.
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:26 PM
 
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YUPPP, Murrrca is a lot like, well, Brazil or Honduras.............loads of mentally-defective zombies just waiting to commit some sort of horrible act against their fellow human-beings.

All the guns in Murrrca could be gone tomorrow, LOL, and the murder-rates would probably go up.
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:37 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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Your culture and psyche is so embedded in guns and violence, that it would take generations to breed out of you lot. I mean there was a time people had a reason to go postal, now you people can't tell the difference watching a movie and acting out a movie in public.

Oh well, until the next one.
Sad thing is stricter gun laws won't stop the madness

What will?
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:42 PM
 
Location: United States
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YUPPP, Murrrca is a lot like, well, Brazil or Honduras.............loads of mentally-defective zombies just waiting to commit some sort of horrible act against their fellow human-beings.

All the guns in Murrrca could be gone tomorrow, LOL, and the murder-rates would probably go up.
I think that's what anti-gun people don't understand, that with all of the poverty, and uneducated, we have millions of people that are in a permanent underclass, and that makes the US much more like South America, than Europe. You can ban guns, like in many European, and South American countries, but we would still have high levels of violent crime like in South America. It's the poverty and lack of opportunities for millions of people that lead to the high violent crime rates here, not the guns.

You need to look no further than our middle, and upper class neighborhoods to see that the guns there are not a problem. The overwhelming majority of the gun violence is committed in the areas with high concentrations of poverty. We have a clear poverty problem, not a gun problem, so banning guns will make things worse, like in South America, where the criminals are much more violent, and people do not have the means to protect themselves.

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Sad thing is stricter gun laws won't stop the madness

What will?
Giving people more opportunities, and getting them out of poverty.
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:43 PM
 
Location: east coast
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Forget gun laws for 1 moment.

What about all the people egging him on via Social Media? What about his mother not providing adequate assistance and also not doing anything about her son's stack of weapons? What about neighbors noticing but not bringing anything to anyone's attention such as protective services? Let's start with the fact that we are raising a bunch of feminine boys that have no idea whether they are boys or girls. We have so much violence on tv, on video games, on youtube, so much content, so many weapons (14 to be exact)....
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:46 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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We won't know that until we get stricter laws, and vigorously enforce them. If those laws don't stop the madness, then the laws must get even stricter still. The problem of course is the Conservative segment of this country. As long as the gun nuts are clinging to their guns, our laws will be inadequate to make a dent in the problem.
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:49 PM
 
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We won't know that until we get stricter laws, and vigorously enforce them. If those laws don't stop the madness, then the laws must get even stricter still. The problem of course is the Conservative segment of this country. As long as the gun nuts are clinging to their guns, our laws will be inadequate to make a dent in the problem.
Right, only the government should have guns. Never mind how violent it is. How many people has your man Obama killed?
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Old 10-02-2015, 08:49 PM
 
Location: east coast
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We won't know that until we get stricter laws, and vigorously enforce them. If those laws don't stop the madness, then the laws must get even stricter still. The problem of course is the Conservative segment of this country. As long as the gun nuts are clinging to their guns, our laws will be inadequate to make a dent in the problem.
Listen, I am all in favor of the right to bear arms but there is no need for civilians to have an armory.
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Old 10-02-2015, 09:03 PM
 
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I think that's what anti-gun people don't understand, that with all of the poverty, and uneducated, we have millions of people that are in a permanent underclass, and that makes the US much more like South America, than Europe. You can ban guns, like in many European, and South American countries, but we would still have high levels of violent crime like in South America. It's the poverty and lack of opportunities for millions of people that lead to the high violent crime rates here, not the guns.

You need to look no further than our middle, and upper class neighborhoods to see that the guns there are not a problem. The overwhelming majority of the gun violence is committed in the areas with high concentrations of poverty. We have a clear poverty problem, not a gun problem, so banning guns will make things worse, like in South America, where the criminals are much more violent, and people do not have the means to protect themselves.



Giving people more opportunities, and getting them out of poverty.
We are not talking about run of the mill crimes.

We are talking about massacres every few weeks by crazy folks that are part of the USA gun culture.

If a person that is part of the gun culture goes nuts he will likely use the guns to kill.

If a person that knows nothing about guns goes nuts it is unlikely he will do mass killings with multiple loaded weapons. This person would not even know how to shoot or handle weapons.

There are crazy folks in all parts of the world, but only in America do they do mass killings. They go for mass killings because they are embedded into the gun culture. The latest shooter had 13 guns.

I know folks that have over 50 guns and are fanatical about their weapons. Just imagine what could happen if they go nuts.
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Old 10-02-2015, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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What will?
Better mental health care.

[these acts are not the work of 'normal' people]
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