It's not easy to get a gun here. You can get a hunting rifle or shotgun easier than a handgun but you can't just say "I want a gun" you need a REASON to get a gun. And "I need to protect my home from criminals" isn't good enough. "I wanna hunt moose" usually is though. But then you're limited to hunting rifles.
Ah, yes, the classic "you need a reason to exercise this right"
But again, they're super regulated. Cops can actually go to your house and inspect your gun safe at any time. Warrant not needed. So you know...
Oh dear, so you're telling me in addition to the second amendment, you'd like to see the fourth gone as well? What other rights bother you, Dave?
And hey, you're right. 1/3 less guns but way less mass shootings. Maybe it has something to do with population? The whole "most guns are outlawed"? The mental health system everyone has free access to?
Just a thought.
Maybe it's because the amount of guns doesn't actually correlate to the amount of gun crime.
And I care because
1) I AM American. I lived there for 32 god damn years.
You don't anymore, so it hardly matters what you think.
2) I do have friends and family there.
I hope they're not as morally disconcerting as you are.
I've been on this website for many years. And every major shooting gets a thread. And nothing changes. Not the frequency of the threads, the numbers of dead or the suggestions made.
It is never going to end.
That's because suggesting the banning of a right in order to prevent a crime is a fundamentally flawed argument. Imagine if a response to a rape epidemic was to castrate all men. No man really
needs a penis, we can just start reproducing through artificial insemination. I'm sure rape rates will drop drastically as soon as we implement my game-changing law.