I don't want this to become a 'Democrat vs Republican' thing, I would like to see reasoned comments and responses without turning to insults.
I have mentioned that Milwaukee is an example of a badly-run city but even if the city leaders have the best of intentions behind them, some people don't care and will do what they want, when they want and they don't care if it's illegal.
This happened late Sunday evening and it's the kind of event that can occur when people who shouldn't have access to guns, do. If you listen, it sounds like automatic gunfire at times and those weapons are already heavily regulated/taxed and access is much more difficult than most other guns.
Several people fired over 300 shots around 11:30 p.m. Sunday in the packed parking lot, injuring two men, 21 and 23.
www.jsonline.com
My thoughts on what will help to decrease needless gun deaths-
- More/better care for people with mental illness
- The courts need to prevent access to guns and remove guns from people who have made threats (see the link about the casino shootings at the bottom)
- The Courts need to grow a set and hold people with violent past when they're arrested for violent crimes
-People need to accept the fact that they know someone with mental illness and that care is needed- lose the stigma
- People who are afraid of guns need to realize that guns do nothing on their own and while the fear may be justified, these people shouldn't be in a position to make policy regarding them but could/should be part of the overall discussion.
-People need to stop getting attention when spewing information that's not accurate and they need to be corrected when they get that attention because it mis-informs others, often leading to a frenzied response.
None of this needs to happen- people have to stop resorting to violence as one of their first reactions to anger.
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Like many have said, it all starts at home. A sorry upbringing by parents that just don't care, or feel the world owes them something well in most cases the children will have a life of drugs, crime, prostitution, gangs to end up in a lot of cases living out of a box looking for that next meal and some acceptance by someone, be it a pimp, gang leader or a peer group bent to crime. There is no political party associated with this as its been going on all over the world since the beginning of time. A shame as some kids, young kids are killed each year and by people that are as sane as we are. Gang violence or pure hate against a race be it black, Asian, white, Hispanic its doesn't mater. IF guns were off the streets, well other means of violence to induce hate is readily available at your hardware or feed store. My family remembers the OK Federal building bombing by two guys in a rented truck loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer mixed with about 1,200 pounds of liquid nitromethane and 350 pounds of Tovex. They killed 168 people and injured over 680. So it doesn't have to be guns but our political system seems to forget that. . People have be run over by trucks, cars, planes blown up in the air, or crashed planes into buildings causing the deaths of thousands .