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In view of the terrible news of the 27 deaths in the Connecticut primary school shooting isn’t it about time the USA banned guns or personal use? I know its not our country, but maybe as a society we should make our opinions known.
The stats on international gun murders are staggering, its beyond belief that people in the USA still fight for the right to bear arms. Thank goodness we have a different point of view here.
In One Year, Guns Murdered
17 People in Finland
35 People in Australia
39 People in England and Wales
60 People in Spain
194 People in Germany
200 People in SpainAnd 9,484 in the United States
Crazy figures… beggars belief
Right now all I can feel is sorrow for the loss of life, so many little ones…I think Obama was right in his briefing, something must change but right now our thoughts must be the families and loved ones who have to pick up the pieces.
Guns don’t kill people …. people with guns do :(
so many young lives cut short :'(
Another twenty school-kids shot dead in America ?
They will never learn.
my heart goes out to them ♥
@boojangle wrote:
Guns don’t kill people …. people with guns do :(
the ability to bear arms as allowed for in the US constitution means that guns are readily available and the accessibility to those guns means that what happened on Friday is sadly much more likely to happen again
I don’t doubt that it will J …… but I was stating a fact!
@boojangle wrote:
I don’t doubt that it will J …… but I was stating a fact!
yes it is a fact and an often quoted fact but until people stand up and say we need gun control in the US these things will keep on happening, and this was the second incident this week to happen over the pond
Once is too many but the multiple occasions it has happened in the US is perhaps a testament to the reason that people should not be allowed to bear arms, though the ability to access arms in the family home is another problem that needs to be addressed
@boojangle wrote:
Guns don’t kill people …. people with guns do :(
I agree…
it’s to do with the way a society sees itself.
The killer seems to have been sensitive, intelligent, depressed and without a gun. The gun he used belonged to his mother.
Strict gun control laws are long overdue in the US, especially in some states whre controls are more lax than others (eg Texas). But strict gun control isn’t the same as making it illegal ‘to bear arms’. That is in the US Constitution for a reason.
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