I totally agree with your assessment. So easy to play gotcha and so hard to make decisions on the spot, in real time, with limited info and such a huge place, a city within a city.
Oh, there's a winner - the media and opportunistic political figures. Just not the families, or the community, or the American public.
Agreed! However, how many people would of died if his choice of weapons was a knife? We to had our share of school killings in Canada and guns inflect the MOST damage.It's a sad day when people assign responsibility, and intent to inanimate objects.
Are you saying that guns never played a part in your school shootings?
I'll repeat myself. If someone wants to use guns to kill people bad enough, they can always find a way to get them.
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Well put Mr. Seth.If gun sales are restricted further the people that intend to break laws will probably still get the guns. A killer certainly isn't going to have any moral dispute or fear of the law when trying to obtain a firearm considering the crime they wish to commit is much worse than getting the firearm illegally.
Now the moral good citizens are having problems getting firearms to protect themselves and their families. Since law enforcement can't be everywhere at once or in time to save lives people have the right to defend themselves.
PS (I have no affiliation with any particular political party
True, but why would any law abiding person want to carry a gun if there's no need to carry a gun? And if there is a need to carry a gun, what does that say about the place in which you live?
"Scotland is reported to have the second highest murder rate in Western Europe and people living in Scotland are more than three times as likely to be killed than those in England and Wales. Rising levels of violence in Scotland have been aggravated by alcohol and drug abuse, gang culture. Almost half of all murders in Scotland are committed by people under the influence of drugs or drink."Nothing like gun related threads highlights the differences between myself as a European, and many on the forum as Americans. You derive a sense of security from the freedom to bear arms to protect yourself whereas I am horrified at the thought that the person standing next to me has the means to so easily end my existance.
How depressing that our ways of thinking are poles apart.
If that's the case, then I apologize for reading that into it.
It's the 'INTENT' not the weapon!
If the person had used a knife, baseball bat or brick it is a virtual certainty that he would have been overcome and fewer - not necessarily none - but fewer people killed.
Why make it easy for them?
That's the way it is, Robbie. Different cultures present different mindsets. There is no reason for depression. Your way of thinking is also worlds apart from Asians, middle-easterners, etc. You grew up in a historical culture of kingdoms and fiefdoms and obedience (no owning of weapons by the masses...that would pose threat to the kings of your country's past). I grew up in a nation of adventurers and independents wanting to carve a nation out of a dangerous wilderness.How depressing that our ways of thinking are poles apart.
