Mass shootings

[Bengalzona]

(02-22-2018, 11:35 AM)Arturo Bandini Wrote: I'm quite sure you don't care much but as an european, this thread is incredible ...

Speechless.

Yes.

I think few Americans realize or care that 99% of the rest of the world doesn't get why this is even a debate.

Nations that have private gun ownership almost always have reasonable and sensible laws to back it up (reasonable and sensible by the world's standards, not by American standards). There's almost never an outcry to change the situation.

Those that don't have private gun ownership generally don't have huge masses of people demanding it. They really don't care for it.

Those places with no gun laws altogether are generally the armpits of the world: Somalia, what is left of Libya, the back woods of Afghanistan, what is left of Syria, etc. They are generally the homes of bandits and pirates.

But with the exception of the third category, they all have societies and feel some responsibility to their society. In America, we have the myth of "rugged individualism". And if you get right down to it, that myth is every bit as much of a fantasy as "Lord of the Rings" or "The Living Dead".