(05-31-2022, 07:16 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(05-31-2022, 04:21 PM)captivating Wrote: Your argument again is flawed. What is happening is no different to pretty much every Western country on the planet, but no other country comes close to the number of mass shootings and school shootings that happen in the US.

The reason for mass shootings is the availability of guns.  If you let the same people get angry and wave their arms in the air no one dies.

If you can't see this, then it's not that you can't see it, you just don't want to.

Are you intentionally avoiding my question? I asked about mass murders in Europe to show that this type of tragedy doesn't go away just because you take away the guns. If you take Europe as a whole (which compares similarly to the US demographically), you see there are many different tragedies spread across their countries, and most of them are stabbings, vehicular slaughter, and, in rarer cases, bombs. I know you want to find a solution but taking away guns from the civilian population will result in more overall deaths. Just like taking policing out of the inner city did. Knee jerk reactions are not the way to manage a country. We keep putting Band-Aids on our problems.  

Those tragedies (bombings, vehicular slaughter, knife attacks) are terrorist attacks.  There have been 11 such attacks over the last decade.  I am not sure what parallel you are trying to draw between terrorism and mass shootings.

On a pound for pound basis, there have been twelve mass rampages in Europe in the last 10 years, with firearms used in ten of those.  In the US, there have been nine mass shooting just THIS YEAR.

The problem is staring you in the face, but you want to skirt around the issue.  You want to blame mental health as if it's only a problem in the US?  Mental health issues exist in Europe too.

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