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Chris Rock does a funny gag about that.
What does a quantum psychic look like? Derek Acorah stacked on top of Mystic Meg?
Aside from your terrible typo (at best) the logic isn't sound, i.e. Canada. So the patronising tone is flawed on two counts.
And this person called 'budda', who said:
"I guess it shows that our gun control is sort of working, either that or our society isnt quite as rotten as the US is."
Yeah, or that there are many million fewer people living here and thus less random people to go mental.
How sad that a tragedy has to be turned into a political debate. Much sadder that that debate is naive and ugly in equal measure.
Oh the fucking irony...
If you had read my post properly, instead of picking at typos for a feeble attempt at sarcasm/wit, you might have noticed the paragraph where I mention the prevailing gun culture and adulation of the gun. Having been in both the US and Canada on several occasions I can assure you there is a far greater case of it in the former nation than in the latter.
I hope you didn't feel I was patronising you too much...
Sympathies to the victims families.
This is a board for political debate - you might feel it's too early for that - others might look at this and feel its too late...
Sorry yanks, but I just think there's so many things that need fixing in America.
and that has something to do with what?
Well taking guns back and forth across state lines probably isn't hard unless you fly.
The US Government requires 3 forms of ID from non US Residents to get a gun and only 2 for Residents, I reckon they'll make it harder for non residents to get a Gun - that way they can be seen as doing some thing without effecting the rights of people that have a vote anyway.
It's a stereotye isn't it. I noticed it.
Of course ? ? ?
For location, read Virginia Tech university
Then read the next two sentences I wrote after that in the quoted post.
Where does the dumb and difficult come into it.
Did any of the victims physically have guns on their person ?
Did everyone have legal permission to carry a gun at Virginia Tech university ?
If so, can you provide me with the said evidence ?
You're going to say because someone could have shot the shooter before he killed all those people.
Then again if students at schools and unis were allowed to carry firearms, instead of 1 horrible massacre every decade you would have hundreds of single-fatality murders every single year, which at the end of the decade would total a lot more than the single massacre.
Whichever way you look at it, when guns are freely available to people gun related murders- and indeed the total murder count irrespective of weapon used- shoot up, if you'll pardon the pun.
Whilst gun possession obviously makes gun crime more likely I still feel there's other more important factors that cause people to commit murder in their society.
Of course, that isn't an arguement for having guns - if you clearly have a very violent society (such as America) then you should surely be taking every step possible to remove weapons from people's hands.
Exactly, tighter controls on guns in the US isnt the complete answer - but its a fairly obvious step which would probably help.
Why does anyone for example need an assault rifle, or a machine gun?
I'd enjoy seeing a restriction on handguns i.e. nobody to be allowed them, and to get a rifle / other firearm you would need to fulfill strict criteria (no criminal record, etc. etc.) rather than just produce ID.
Your post implies to me that you are in agreement with those who would use force to prevent someone defending themselves.
That proposal appears to have been successfully implimented for the victims.
It didn`t help the victims.
The victims don`t seem to have been afforded that "right".
(Or more legally precise: had that "right" withdrawn).
Nobody ?
Give it a rest seeker, you know for a fact that gun control refers to the ability to purchase the weapon in the first place, rather than the restrictions in where you can use them. I would bet a million pounds (if I had it) that if the law in America restricted the type of gun someone could own in America to something (with a slow rate of fire) like a shotgun or a hunting rifle, then nowhere near 30 people would've died, because the criminal could've been stopped quickly after he started shooting. Unless he illegally acquired his weapon of course, but there's no reason to assume that he would've had the contacts to do be able to do this.
And all because some selfish tossers in the US believe it is a fundamental right to possess lethal weapons which only purpose is to end human life.
This reader letter to the Guardian today puts it better than I could:
The victims voluntarily didn't carry weapons. They exercised their free choice to attend a university that didn't allow weapons on campus and abide by those rules.
I admit that I may be playing on my perception of your lack of punctuation, but would your prevention include the life of the instrument acquirer ?
We all know how you don't believe police forces and armies "exist". The rest of us do. Nothing to see here, please move along...
Speculation ?
Admitted speculation ?
Give it a fucking rest and stop side tracking threads.