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Originally Posted by
Hurdleking
Today's was the 41st school shooting this year.......no other country, let alone developed country, has this problem......it has got to be addressed if we want children/young adults to be able to learn in an environment that is conducive to learning.....druff's post was neither funny nor appropriate......you can hate Obama if you want but we need to stop burying our young people ........we have 4percent of the worlds population and 45 per cent of the privately owned firearms......I doubt very much that the answer is more guns.......
I wasn't joking.
The school shootings are becoming common because they are copying one another. The shooters see the news just like we do.
Basically the Columbine shooters started this sick trend. It's not due to the proliferation of guns, which were also plentiful 20+ years ago before this was happening.
The murders in America are a cultural problem and not a gun problem.
I feel much safer having a gun in my house than I would under any kind of program where I give mine up and trust that everyone else will, too.
These shootings, while tragic, still account for a very small percentage of murders in the US. That's important to remember.
It is far safer in America in 2015 than in 1990, despite this big increase in mass shootings.