After this whole thing with the mass shooting in Oregon, it hit pretty close to home yet again. I went to school just south of there, and lived in that part of Oregon for 4 years out of my life. I know people from Roseburg. I know people who actually went to the school where this happened.
Not a month ago, there was a shooting at a community college 15 minutes from where I live in Sacramento - it wasn't a mass shooting, but it was serious. And Scary. I have friends at that school.
My high school had a shooting about 6 or 7 years ago after I had graduated. My brother had just graduated the previous summer...
This doesn't happen elsewhere - and when it does, the place where it happens does something about it...
Port Arthur happened, and Australia freaked out. They haven't had a mass shooting since.
Zug Massacre happened, and Switzerland implemented a lot of changes as well, and not only made it harder to get guns, especially certain kinds of guns, but also made it so in order to get them, increased firearms training and licensing would be required.
But here in America? Nope. No changes. No changes at all. No increase in gun control. No laws preventing certain firearms. No making it harder for anyone to get firearms. No nothing.
over 500000 gun deaths have happened in the USA since 1997. More than both world wars. combined. Think about that for just a second. not even 2 decades, and there have been over half a MILLION americans killed by firearms.
Simply put, we need to make a change. I get it folks, some of you really really like guns... but sometimes you just gotta accept change in order to make us all safer.
I know that many of you will probably bring up that many of these shooters have some sort of mental illness and that we need to focus on that rather than guns or something... welllll...
Screw the whole mental illness thing...
Yes, We need to do that, but you know damn well people will still slip through the cracks because they SEEM fine, and put together a bunch of weapons in order to shoot up an office or a school or a theatre or whatever...
Mental illness is stigmatized in this country. Nobody will admit to that, or admit that they have a kid who is sick until something really really shitty happens. We barely admit that we are addicted to alcohol or drugs when we need to, what makes you think americans will just flock to mental hospitals if we increase funding and care in that direction?
First and foremost, and the most direct thing to do, is just tell all the NRA 2nd amendment rights bastards to shut the fuck up about their government takeover conspiracy, stop acting like bratty children, and realize that there needs to be stronger laws when it comes to obtaining guns and ammunition... Switzerland allows guns, but they don't have fucking ammo stores every 2-3 miles and a gun show every weekend.
Additionally, we should also require stricter firearms awareness and training courses in order to obtain these kind of weapons. If you have to go through half a week worth of awareness and training in order to drive a car, you should in order to fire a weapon that may have been designed to kill a person.
There should also be money allocated to cracking down HARD on illegal firearms. The amount of money that goes towards going after illegal firearms and that that goes towards soft yet illegal drugs such as marijuana is skewed harshly in the wrong direction.
Americans need to just shut up and realize that whoever wrote the 2nd amendment didn't take into account that we'd have automatic handheld machine guns and shit, back in the day when it was just as effective to kill somebody with a bayonet...
To all those who say "people kill people" and that shit, I retort -People would find it pretty hard to go on a 'mass stabbing' with a knife. Hell, it's hard enough to go on a 'mass swording' because people are far better at avoiding that than a gun. Anyone with a karate class can disarm a dude with a knife... but you can't disarm a gunman from 20-30 feet away...
People with guns kill people. Not all of them. But enough of them. That should be plenty of reason to make a change...
**This thread was edited on Oct 4th 2015 at 3:05:27pm
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