Originally Posted by Dan Druff
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'm pretty sure that state gun laws have overall gotten less restrictive since the 1990s. And federal laws have also changed, making it easier for gun merchants to market guns, as well as be immune from civil lawsuits based on gun violence.
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.
You are making a straw man argument here. The legitimate gun control measures that are being proposed -- and blocked by conservatives in Congress -- would tighten background checks to reduce the likelihood of the mentally ill and criminals being able to buy guns. Unless you put yourself into either of those categories, Druff, the "guvmint" ain't coming for your single gun in your house! That notion is a lie spread by gun merchant supporters and conspiracy theory nut jobs on the right to ginup votes for politicians in the pocket of the gun merchants.
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.
This is a false comparison. The proper one is how safe is someone in Ramboland versus other industrialized countries. I'm reposting a graphic to bring this point home.
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