I totally believe in it. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
The point everybody makes is that if guns are not so easily available, mass killings won't happen.
People can run their cars over crowd. Ban cars?
Some people say kids play video games and get inspired by that. Ban FPS n similar games?
Why do killings happen? It is quite complicated to reach a conclusion which is accurate.
How to stop the shootings? Deploy force everywhere? Neither practical, nor the solution.
Hurt people hurt people. These guys who kill random people hate society. They don't kill anybody, but try to hurt the society.
This is the sickness that cannot be controlled through anti-depressants, counseling, etc.
I don't think it can be completely solved. There will always be people who are unhappy with society.
Banning guns won't help according to me.
seems like not only can it not be controlled by anti depressants, anti depressants seem to cause these mass shootings. Unlike guns many of those drugs are required to have warnings that say "may cause suicidal thoughts or actions" and yet no one on the media sponsored by the drug companies talks about that.
What do anti depressants have to do with any of this? Its true, someone suffering from severe depression wont harm others nor commit suicide as long as it is severe, just to much of a bother to commit suicide in such a case. They do commit suicide when and if they start feeling better. But what does this have to do with guns and why is suicide constantly portraied as a bad thing? Cant we just be happy for the ones that managed to end their own suffering?
it seems like a lot of incidents caused by antidepressants which say in the ads "May cause suicidal thoughts or actions" are being blamed upon guns inappropriately. Suicide is only really portrayed as a bad thing when they are using suicide numbers to bulk up the "gun violence" number. Suicide is fine, but gun deaths are very bad.
Right, they do do that. Im not the biggest fan of guns (though i am liberal and as such support freedoms), but as far as i see it, its someone using something americans have a right to own in order to make use of their right to their own life.
I have suggested in the past we could significantly reduce gun violence if guns were sold with a head sized plastic bag and a zip tie.
I mean to be honest, if it becomes an international story when 15 people die from guns while the on average 500 people killed in hospitals by mistake of doctors per day are ignored, id say guns arent such a big problem.
More than twice as many Americans are killed annually by varicose veins and related conditions as by so called "gun violence" and yet there is not a single article about them on NPR.