This weekend’s mass shootings come as the country mourns the victims of its deadliest mass shooting this year. Days earlier, 18 people were killed in a shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
This weekend’s mass shootings come as the country mourns the victims of its deadliest mass shooting this year. Days earlier, 18 people were killed in a shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
Guns, of course. But let’s don’t say to make them illegal or americans get mads telling you isn’t about weapons and everything can be a weapon. Well then try do a mass shootings with an hammer, a knife or a rock.
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I didn’t know the onion did this.
They’ve been publishing almost the same article for something like a decade.
Those people are so annoying.
I usually ask them why we don’t replace the military and police’s guns with spoons. Save a lot of money. You can also kill people with a spoon.
I think there is a kind of obsession with violence and needs to feeling powerful. Really weapons should not exist at all, even the nuclears one. Wars make no sense as killing or wishing the dead of someone. In Europe even police don’t go around easly with guns, it is common sense.
Unfortunately, it largely boils down to “you first” type arguments. Countries won’t remove their nuclear weapons until everyone else does, and the same is true for military weapons and whatnot. As long as weapons exist, they’ll be needed as a deterrent to others who have weapons.
But I absolutely agree that we need to change our relationship with guns. Here are some actionable steps:
Both are compatible with the Constitution AFAIK, and I think the first could reduce how many officers get shot in traffic-related interactions because they no longer present a lethal threat.
Yep, guns are a scary jump in easy ways to kill people.
I hardly believe in usa sometimes, thinking about common people who goes around with guns. Why? Why any should have an easy way to kill someone else? It does not make any sense.
Think of it another way, why should I be restricted in my options to defend myself? I can understand if I have committed some crime or am otherwise a danger to society, but if someone comes at me with a knife or a gun, do I just have to accept that? The police aren’t going to protect me when seconds count.
I personally don’t own guns because I think the risk of my kids finding them and hurting themselves or others is too high, and the risk of someone attacking me or my family is really low (crime rates in my area are really low).
There are lots of cases where individuals have successfully defended themselves using firearms, so I don’t think they should be outlawed. Instead, I propose a few changes:
I believe the first two have no Constitutional issues, and the last two should be compatible with the 2nd amendment, but it could depend on implementation.
Because when guns were a little harder to come by, and to kill people with, a bunch of rich white guys managed to start a new country. Quickly, they added the Bill of Rights to our constitution with the 2nd amendment that says i have the basic right to own a gun.
But its actual meaning has been debated ever for decades.