Issa
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Irish, italian, Jewish, polish mafias are all a myth I guess. There was no killings before o guess....everyone went to church.Look American society is very harsh...Most mass shooters are white GTFOHHmm doesn’t that mean with the right control policies, gun violence can be miminized? First world countries like Australia and in Western Europe have low death rates by guns per capita.
To answer your question, let me pose a scenario:
You have two areas: one is a nice upper-middle-class area, and the other is a crime ridden area with lots of drugs, murders, and robberies.
Make a law for both areas. In the crime area, no guns period. In the upper-middle-class area, every citizen must have a firearm in the house and on person.
So what changes would you expect in both areas after four or five years? None. Nothing will change. The lower class area will still be rife with crime and the upper area will still be peaceful and virtually crime-free.
We are a very diverse country, and sad to say, but some cultures are much more violent than others. You are six times more likely to be murdered in the US by a black person than a white.
In your comparison to us and other countries, you are only comparing gun regulations and not the people. That's why you're so confused. People kill people, not guns.
So are we talking about mass shooters only or overall gun murders?
Recreational narcotics have been illegal in this country my entire life. Yet today, we have more of a problem with drugs than at any other time in our history. More addicts, more drug users, more overdose deaths, more people being saved from OD"s.
People are under immense stress, less family support (everyone on his own), drugs, violent video games, movies...even a violent president. So when people lose their shit they have access to guns and they used them...I cant the same about other countries, because guns are hard to get....keep counting the bodies, 307 mass shootings so far.
And most of them are not really mass shootings. A mass shooting is four or more people by FBI standards. That happens in drive by drug shootings all the time.
People had it much harder years ago. My father could tell you stories about growing up that would make you cry. He lived in a house about the size of a three car garage with his five other siblings. They went to bed hungry quite often. The house had no running water or sewer, so when you had to go, you went outside to the outhouse even in the middle of winter. The outhouse didn't even have a roof on it. Pretty cold when you sit on a seat with snow on it.
My father never got into trouble with the law, and neither did his siblings. Most of them turned out to be hard working people and all the males joined the military and fought in wars. My father said he joined just to get three square meals a day.
So I don't buy this hard life BS. I don't buy that guns are the problem either. The problem is our society. We live in a near Godless country and we raise our children to be eggshells. The least thing goes wrong in their life, and they end up killing a bunch of people because as far as they are concerned, the only thing that happens to you after death is everything goes blank just like before you were born.