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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow rational societies respond to mass shootings.
Australia. Port Arthur massacre. Response: much tighter gun laws. Result: a lot less shootings.
UK. Dunblane massacre. Response: much tighter gun laws. Result: a lot less shootings.
US. Massacre after massacre. Response: nothing. Result: massacre after massacre.
Squinch
(50,916 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)I think only members of a well regulated militia should have access to firearms. "Well regulated" means overseen by the government in a way that weeds out the nut jobs. Unfortunately, the courts do not agree with me.
Waldorf
(654 posts)"The phrase "well-regulated" was in common use long before 1789, and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected."
Dem2
(8,166 posts)I'm tired of gun-promoting people even though I own guns. Bye.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)For a militia that means being comprised of sane people who will follow directions, not turn on their fellow citizens, etc. A militia cannot function if its members are a bunch of random "patriots" who believe the biggest threat is from their own government.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)June 12, 2016. Not even halfway through the year and 134 mass shootings. I've said it before, I'll say it again; STOP THE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)They mean things like this: largely random shootings of large groups of people, generally strangers to the shooter.
When people say "134 mass shootings this year" they include for example a brawl in the parking lot of a roadhouse where two bikers pull guns and shoot each other and one other person. Not that that's not bad, but it's not what people think when they say "mass shooting".
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I get that you have to follow public engagement, and unfortunately it's mass shootings that do that, but if this is a "normal" day 60 people died from "normal" shootings (40 of them suicides) in addition to the 50 at the nightclub. I bring this up because the policies that might address the one problem might not address the other...
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)What other parts of the Bill of Rights do you want to take away to "keep us safe"?