So many red herrings, it is impossible to know where to start!
First, gun control would NEVER take guns away from people who legitimately need them. Like farmers to protect their herds and flocks against coyotes or wolves. Or bears! Gun control means limiting weapons which are military grade, especially, have large munition clips or capacity for mass killing. Why would anyone need those?
Second, to the lie that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” of course people are behind the trigger. But in every country that has limited the use of guns, there are NO mass murderers. Australia being the perfect example. They banned weapons in 1996, (not for people who need them like ranchers!) and NO mass murders since then.
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Still, the past five years have brought some additional clarity. And one core fact has remained strikingly unchanged: In the 18 years before Port Arthur, Australia witnessed 13 mass shootings, defined as shootings in which five or more people were killed. In the 21 years since, there have been none.”
Did gun control stop mass shootings in Australia? Probably.
Japan the same! They banned guns, and in some years they have NO gun deaths in the whole country.
The madmen and angry people DO still get ahold of weapons. But, a knife might hurt or maim one or two people before they are disarmed. Not 17 like today, or over 50 in Las Vegas a while back. (Oh, that mass shooting really hurt business, Canadians are not going there in droves like they used to!)
Third, the US constitution does NOT give the right to bear arms for every person who decides they need an automatic or semiautomatic, or even a one shot at a time weapon. The reason for the right to bear arms was for a “militia!” Not one of the recent shootings (any??) had a thing to do with defending the country from either outsiders or your own government.
Fourth, speaking of defending yourself from your own government, I mean, really?? REALLY??
Fifth, stop blaming gun violence on the apostasy from God. I have no doubt people are 100% right about how our societies have fallen away from God, and how terrible it is. But, Canada is well ahead of you on this, we are a secular, pagan nation, I am sad to say, but we do not have mass murders like the US. And if there are shootings, it is usually with weapons purchased in the US and smuggled into Canada. Or, against our Mounties who are trying to capture a criminal, and they do have guns, but sadly are sometimes unable to kill the shooter first. I am sure things would be much worse here, if guns were readily accessible.
Japan is and always was, a non-Christian nation. Yet, they banned guns and no gun deaths some years, and below 10 in others! And that is not mass shootings, but one on one shootings.
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Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret? If you want to buy a gun in Japan you need patience and determination. You have to attend an all-day class, take a written exam and pass a shooting-range test with a mark of at least 95%.
There are also mental health and drugs tests. Your criminal record is checked and police look for links to extremist groups. Then they check your relatives too - and even your work colleagues. And as well as having the power to deny gun licences, police also have sweeping powers to search and seize weapons.
That's not all. Handguns are banned outright. Only shotguns and air rifles are allowed.
The law restricts the number of gun shops. In most of Japan's 40 or so prefectures there can be no more than three, and you can only buy fresh cartridges by returning the spent cartridges you bought on your last visit.”
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime - BBC News
Sixth, we have psychotrophic drugs in Canada, too! But, because of limited access to guns, no one is getting shot in schools, or at a music festival. Same for all the other countries in the western world.
Cop out after cop out!
I am sitting watching TV in a restaurant outside Seattle Washington right now. The coverage of the incident in Florida is dominating the news. It is horrible to see the broken people, who have lived through this tragedy that were on the site of the shooting. Yet, no mention of the one solution that could stop this holocaust. Ban the guns that cause this. Shut down gun sellers and conventions and fairs that don’t do background checks. Limit access to guns to people with proper training and a use for them, who have had background checks for mental illness (Overturn HIPA on this! Protecting lives are more important than the mentally ill having access to guns!)
And most important, stop this culture of guns! Stop justifying and rationalizing garbage like “guns don’t kill people.” Try telling that to the parents of one of those 17 people who died yesterday. Any American who rationalizes that “guns don’t kill people” is complicit in these mass shootings, as far as I can see. That is NRA propaganda, pure and simple!
I think JB said, “every other civilized country that has gun control” and I heartily concur. Gun control could be the start to stopping this slaughter, especially in schools. But, if you keep up this culture of death, no revival in the world is going to stop the madmen, the disaffected, the angry from buying a gun that can shoot fast and hard, and thousands of innocents being killed.
