Mass shootings are statistically rare and isolated events. Added together, the number of mass shootings in recent years have produced statistically few deaths per incident overall. When the numbers are looked at as a whole, they are statistically minute to the point of being insignificant.
But those 2 cities have a high percentage of blacks and we know that the Democratic Party historically opposes allowing blacks to have firearms. People with money and connections can get a permit.
I think we could see major impacts from ammo regulation in ten years. Only the hard core would stock ammo. I dismiss nothing out of hand. Show me the budget and lets talk. I think a wide variety of measures could stop gun violence. Everything from gun control to job training programs and everything in between. It is a complex problem that requires complex solutions. - - - Updated - - - Welcome to 2016! - - - Updated - - - They are not insignificant to the families involved. And we have way to many of them. I would like as many mass shootings as they have in japan. - - - Updated - - - Yeah lets get rid of cars and eliminate auto deaths. LOL
First you say generations, and now you are saying ten years is all that would be needed to see results. Which standard is it? Show where such has been acknowledged as being accurate and factual, rather than your own dismissal. What do job training programs have to do with anything relating to this discussion, when those responsible for eighty percent of the homicide and violence rates are career criminals, and thus not likely to have meaningful employment even if provided the opportunity? Which is irrelevant to the discussion. And yet despite the number of mass shootings you have in the united states, the number of individuals who are murdered in the city of Chicago every single year either rival or actually exceed the number of deaths in every mass shooting that occurs in a single year. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604 Last year in the united states there were three hundred and seventy two mass shootings, producing a death toll of four hundred and seventy five. That is less than two deaths per incident. Comparatively there were four hundred and sixty eight murders in the city of Chicago in the same year. http://time.com/4165576/chicago-murders-shootings-rise-2015/ Which is simply never going to happen in the united states. It is not a feasible development, is physically impossible, and is not worth even discussing. You cannot argue otherwise unless you argue for the elimination of all firearms currently in existence. Are you saying it is too much of an undertaking to prevent those deaths from occurring?
You are free to believe this is an impossible task. Other countries have done it and we can too. But you are free to believe differently.
Yeah I'm an amazing guy, thanks for noticing. When are you going to look at the budget and start reducing the police force. Let's do this.
Oh well you were just talking about the training budget and ammo regulation and stuff so I thought you had some decision making power.
That is because it is. No other country in the world has a justice system regarded as a revolving door. Nor has any other country in the world reached the saturation point where there are more privately owned firearms in circulation, than there are people to own them. The number of firearms currently in the united states is literally higher than the number of citizens living in the country. Show us one other country in the world that has faced a similar situation and successfully overcame it, and perhaps you will have a point.
No other country has faced such an uphill battle. What other country once had over 300 million guns, 12 million concealed licenses, a 2A, and a populous that cherishes gun rights, and a now conservative majority Supreme Court?
I love the naysayers Circumnavigate the globe?....it can not be done Climb Mt Everest?.....it can not be done Reach the north pole?....it can not be done Break the sound barrier?....it can not be done The world if full of people who said no....until someone said yes
