Is it time to talk about guns?

I should have used the word "weapon"... allows for the possibility of reloading.

 

Thirty injured, four killed in mass shootings over the weekend - NewsBreak

 

I don't care how many people get killed. It's a small price to pay to preserve my God-given right to overcompensate for my deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and impotence by prancing about brandishing a mass-murder machine like some surrogate phallus.

 

I really think that has something to do with it.

 

an unregistered gun is a crime waiting to happen. Good journalism should report if the weapon is legal.

Firearms legislation is useless in the face of unregistered weapons.

 

What makes me crazy is people that say "oh, someone got into my unlocked car last night, got my computer, my phone, my wallet .... and my gun...". Thanks for putting another gun on the street, pal.

Oh, there's a cash for guns program here - they can't take any more guns because they are out of storage room. Right legislation says they can't destroy them, "just in case their lawful owner claims it..."

 

Just hearing of another shooting at a Walmart store in the USA .

Crazy.

You guys again need to concentrate on again what is an American cancer and appears to be getting worse

 

In 2015, 3 million adults said they carried a loaded handgun daily, and 9 million did so once a month. In 2019, about a third of handgun owners, or an estimated 16 million adults, saying they carried a loaded handgun in public at least once a month, and an estimated 6 million saying they did so daily; an increase of 100% in 4 years.
This trend has undoubtedly continued (and quite probably escalated) after record-breaking firearms sales during the COVID pandemic, as a consequence of the repeal of firearms licensure laws by Republican-dominated state legislatures, and the Republican-dominated Supreme Court contrived decision New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

None of this made anyone safer. The firearm homicide rate in the United States increased nearly 35% from 2019 to 2020, coinciding with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. 19 million guns were sold in 2020, and 87,000 of those were recovered from crime scenes within the next year. The average rate of assaults with firearms increased 9.5% in the first 10 years after 34 states relaxed restrictions on civilians carrying concealed firearms in public. Stand-your-ground laws are associated with an 11% increase in firearm homicides.

Is this really the legacy we want to bequeath to our children?

Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015

New Data Suggests a Connection Between Pandemic Gun Sales and Increased Violence

Study Finds Significant Increase in Firearm Assaults in States that Relaxed Conceal Carry Permit Restrictions | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Notes from the Field: Increases in Firearm Homicide ...

 

I am middle of the road. I fully support the ability to own a gun. BUT just like a car that is deadly we need training to be a priority and a lic prosses that will include criminal/mental and that training. Growing up in the pioneer days kids saw and used a gun at a very young age safely and with a good upraising. Here lies our problem and NOT the gun. We are failing our kids by not raising them properly. And that is a hole other mess that desperately needs to be fixed!

 

This started many decades ago in the 70s and 80s with the latchkey kid and sitcoms normalizing broken families. Moms were replaced with violent video games. You notice today long gone are the shows such as the Waltons and Little House on the prairie replaced with crime shows mostly.

The Walmart shooter claimed he was bullied and harassed by other employees. My first thought is go to my supervisor and if that did not work quit! I would never dream of doing what he did! Thats not a gun problem that's a society issue of how they are thinking. I also have a BIG problem with the news media! I truly believe the second reason he thought this was a good idea was simply watching the news. He saw the repeated reports on the news and said to himself that will fix my problem. Yes, the news needs to report it. BUT they need to balance out that news with the good. Why not interview someone who got help and is doing good right after that bad news enforcing the idea of good solutions that work!