I am sure you have heard by now of another cinema shooting, 2 women killed, 5 others injured, shooter took his own life.
We hear about these kind of things regularly now, which is depressing in and of itself, but what you dont here over there probably is the other stuff that goes on.
I live in Miami, not a month goes by where there isnt some sort of mass shooting, but in poor neighbourhoods, latin and African americans shot and killed so it really doesnt make national news for some reason.

But get this, in 2010 (for some reason this is the latest year they have complete figures for - 4 years to gather stats is a problem in and of itself):

31,000 people killed by guns in the USA.
73,500 not fatal shootings.
THats 104,500 people shot in one year, with a population of 320 million, thats one in every 3062 people get shot each year !

My sons are 14 and 16 now, and i get more concerned each year.
A few years back, someone i know at work, his son had just graduated High School top of his class, got a nice new car as a reward. He was visiting some friends in a nice neighborhood, when he left his friends house there were 2 guys sitting on his car. He told them to get the F off his car. One of the guys walked over to his car, came back and shot the kid dead. For nothing more than telling him to get the F off his car.

He shot this kid in broad daylight with multiple witnesses who new who he was.

Guns do not seem to be the problem, its mentality, upbringing and culture and society. But how do you fix that ?

My wife is Mexican, and we have talked several time now about moving to England. Mexico is not much of an option, yes it has its violence (less shootings per capita than USA however!) but 70% of Mexico is violence free. No, its just my spanish is not good enough to work there.
Now we are seriously considering moving back to England.

THere are 90 guns per 100 people in this country.
2700 kids were killed by guns in 2010. 15,000 were injured.

THe NRA and the republicans in general, want more guns. Everyone should have a gun.

Whats the answer ?

Selling guns to any Tom Dick or Harry is just stupid. I don't care it you're 'USA till I die', it's just stupid.

We'll never die

Really?

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I mean in the sense that compare to other countries that have similar gun ownership rates and do not have the same problems.
I am anti gun, but i have come to accept that you will never be rid of guns in this country, so a different approach is required.

very true. people always forget about the bullets.

Nope, although such weapons are fairly well restricted, by comparison. The real question is why would anyone want to own an Assault Rifle at all (or variant there of).

And what does it say about arms manufacturers that they produced a civilian version of the M-16 in order to get around potential restrictions on the ownership of such weapons.

There is no feasible reason to own an assault rifle, or one that's a civilian version that's semi-automatic. No one really hunts with them (they're not accurate enough), and they're not really suited to home defense either.

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