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A couple of months ago a fellow walked into a theatre and started shooting people.
The other day a fellow walks in a mall and starts shooting but luckily his gun jammed and only two people were killed.
Today a man walks in an elementary school in Connecticut. And 27 are dead, including children. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5569025c-4613-11e2-ae8d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2F3FPan2u
The sale and easy ownership in the US of assault type rifles with clips that can hold massive amounts of bullets is a big problem. Also semi-auto handguns are way too easy to get and they too can have standard clips or clips that can hold more bullets.
It will be interesting to know what specific types of guns he had and the clip sizes as well as how he got them if what their family neighbour said is true, which was Lanza had mental problems.
What does it matter? We know that he had at least 27 fatal bullets.
It’s a personal thing. I know guns, sold them for years. Some of the US states have laws different than other states, so to buy a gun in one state where it is legal and take it to another state where it is not, is a piece of cake. The inconsistencies in US gun laws makes them even more difficult to enforce. The US has a Federal law banning assault weapons but the definition of ‘assault’ varies. Concealed/carry either open to visibility or not and the requirement for a carry permit also varies state to state.
Also an assault type weapon is far more dangerous than a handgun and so is the body count wherever one is used. When witnesses who heard the shots in the school said it seemed like rapid fire and as if there was a 100 shots, my first feeling was it was an assault rifle. Based on what you said in post 22, it seems my hunch was correct.
According to CNN, he had autism and "personality disorders". Knowing that, why would he have been allowed to access these weapons? They should have been locked away where he could not get to them.
To the best of my knowledge there are no laws for gun storage in the US, so anywhere is acceptable. There is even a company that makes storage for under beds and the gun pops out at an instant with the touch of a finger, like a kitchen cupboard door. There are framed pictures you can hang in your hallway and with a touch of a finger it opens up and behind it is a handgun.
In the US they do not ask who is living at home and if the person has mental problems. Only the person requesting the firearms permit is checked out.
It is at times like this that I cannot believe there is a god - one that would allow something like this to happen.
And they will say……..’god works in mysterious ways’. Do I believe there is a loving caring ‘god’…..not for a moment. Based on his resume through history……it stinks to high heaven.
Where were these ubiquitous guns when this nutcase opened fire ?
They probably don’t carry them in an elementary school and who could have guessed this would happen! But many people in the US carry guns, openly or concealed. You can also carry a concealed weapon in Connecticut but you need a permit. How difficult it is to get one I don’t know. I do know in Texas it is easy to get a carry. In Arizona anyone over 21 can carry. ‘The Right to Bear Arms’…..in the Constitution and part of American culture.
The US is a country of coporate greed.
The US is the largest gun manufacturer in the world and the largest exporter of guns in the world. Huge industry employing 10’s of thousands of people. They’re not going to give that up, or even alter it in any way that will lose……money.
Banning/registering guns only means that the law adiding person will not have them.
The question is…..what happens when a law abiding citizen does use them? In the US….virtually nothing. You have a right to protect your home and property. In Canada...much different. Case in point………A couple of years ago a man in Pt Colborne Ont watched three masked men firebomb his home. It was caught on security cameras and the tape was there for the police to see. It can still be seen on YouTube. The home owner also happened to be a ex-gun instructor in Ont. He went to his locked box, retrieved his handgun and loaded it and went outside. He didn’t shoot at the culprits, he just let a couple off in the air to scare them away. He was arrested by the OPP for using his gun.
gun is convenient and that's why is tool of choice if available. most gun crimes would happen anyway in gun controlled environment, they would just happen with different tool. this guy could have walked in with nail gun, chain saw or just a kitchen knife and cause the same havoc. seriously, nobody sees this, everyone blames the gun? wake up folks
A gun is the most ‘convenient’, but using any of those other weapons would first of all not created the same destruction and secondly those other weapons are much easier to defend against. Guns can be shot from hundreds of feet away….the other weapons mean having to get up close and personal and most of these murderers do not want to do that. Bullets also cause massive body destruction especially if it is the right ammunition. No it is not the gun….but it is the ‘convenience of the gun’ that makes it so attractive for death and destruction.
The thing about the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is how it is worded….totally. It states……..” A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” So it is how you interpret the meaning. Does it mean only when a militia is needed or everyone having a firearm just incase a militia is needed. This has been challenged in the US and on both occassions the courts decided that it is the right of the people to own guns and states do not have an individual right to change that law.
US citizens own approx 270 Million of the 875 million known guns in the world. Personally I think 270 is probably a bit low. In the US there is approx 90 guns per 100 people. So……….nothing is changing in the US any time soon.
