Are Islamists under the influence too? Maybe the influence of Islam. Or people with grudges? School shooters too? What are druggies doing with guns?
It's terrifying for most visitors to America to find you can buy guns at gas stations. There are gun shops in Australia but don't bother going there unless you have the license. I don't have a license now but I do like to just look.
What's the problem with that? The owner of the gas station still has to go through hoops of getting a FFL just like any other merchant who sells guns. I could give a rats fanny how they do things in that being overrun by Muslims s-hole of a country that Australia is becoming. Maybe worry about you own rather serious problems before worrying about what you perceive are our problems. PS you also don't have the Second do you?
Fact remains: The only reason Australia doesn't see the mass shootings the US does is lack of motivation. This has nothing to do with the laws.
He did. Had he spent his money better he could have easily killed a -lot- more people - you should be happy he chose an AR15.
The proportion of guns used to commit murder in the US approaches statistical zero. Thus, the number of guns cannot be shown as a problem.
Gas stations gun by someone with a federal license to sell firearms, sure. This means they are a gun store that also sells gas.
You, I and a lot of anti-gunners know guns are not the the problem, the people misusing them are, but anti-gunners are really not interested in stopping killings, in fact they celebrate killings and use them as a tool to advance their gun hating agenda. If they really wanted to stop the killings they would demand still long term sentences for those who misuse guns, in fact many of them support catch and release knowing full well those killers are going to go and kill again giving the anti-gunners more fodder to advance their agenda, a very evil agenda I might add.
What would be more terrifying to an anti if they had enough common sense to understand a person with the intention of executing a mass killing could do a much better job of killing and wounding innocents with a gallon of gasoline then with a gun.
They seek to make it as hard as possible for the law abiding to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, and are happy to stand on the bodies on the innocent to do it.
When a murderer can shot nearly 600 people and we say "he could have easily killed a lot more" with some other weapon (?) then we are getting desperate indeed. Imagine, 600 people shot by one guy in peace time. That story vanished from the headlines rather quickly. For the rest of the world we are either staggered at the thought, or dismiss it as fake news.
Most Autistics repeat important facts many many times. Sadly, it is a fact -- 572,000 lives in 1999-2016. It is a democide.
No, we don't have a "Second" here. We never had a war against Great Britain, but enjoy the same rights as Americans notwithstanding. IMO if USA had stayed in the Commonwealth like Canada, Australia and New Zealand there would have been an early end to slavery, no Civil War and no WWI and WWII (because Germany would be facing the USA on Day 1 of hostilities.) So an amendment to protect the people against the govt was pointless. If it IS important then purchase some tactical nukes - small arms won't do.
And yet there have been nearly twenty seven mass killings in the nation of Australia since the Port Arthur incident. Such does not suggest anything of actual meaning has changed.
Then simply give up. Sever all ties with the united states, and do not come back to the forum, as no amount of arguing is going to change how the united states views the situation.
And two million of them are saved from being a victim of a crime by being armed, you can feel sorry for the hoodrats and thugs who make up the majority of the shootings in the US all you want, I will side with the law abiding who are no threat to anyone, but have saved themselves and families from becoming victims of crime, by the thugs you support.