This thread was inevitable. There have been three deadly shootings in a very short timespan. First the shooting in Buffalo, then at an elementary school in Uvalde, and now at a hospital in Tulsa.
What are your thoughts on current gun control laws? How do you propose we fix this problem? Should we limit guns or take away the second amendment?
civilians arent allowed to own guns in my country
i think guns are pretty cool
guns should be legal for hunting purposes because if someone can kill you from 1km away at the click of a switch that's fucked up, atleast with knives you stand a chance
we dont have guns in the UK and we have no shootings uh maybe america should do that
↩ NotPetya miwo will cite the Plymouth shooting and attempt to say that is somehow normal or anywhere near the level of shootings America experiences.
i would like to keep my sanity during exam season so I won’t respond to any actual arguments but this is just me telling you how they will try and make the uk sound much worse than it is
miwo will cite the Plymouth shooting and attempt to say that is somehow normal or anywhere near the level of shootings America experiences.
No. I just found it absurd to blatantly state that there are no issues with shootings in any country.
Since the Plymouth shooting on August 12 2021, there have been 531 mass shootings in the US, resulting in the deaths of 575 people.
And in between the two most recent shootings in the UK, the 12 August 2018 Moss Side shooting and 12 August 2021 Plymouth shooting, there were 1,588 shootings in the US - and each year they have become more frequent. I haven't looked into death statistics in the US for this period since I'm on mobile and the US has a separate article for each year which makes navigation quite difficult.
Even if you adjust for the US having 5 times more people, there are still 150x more shootings in the same time period - and the period I sampled was made to intentionally include 2 shootings in the UK.
Obviously there still are shootings, but the regulations the UK has makes them much fewer and further between.
↩ Noah
There's a difference between a mass shooting and a mass killing. I went by the numbers written on Wikipedia, which seem to have the same rule but involve people being shot and not just killed.
I see your point but I personally wasn't up for sifting through all the raw data - and the 2018 shooting I referenced in the UK had 0 fatalities.
That's a question I can't answer.
More regulation and stricter control sounds good on paper, but there are multiple caveats. Mainly the huge number of firearms owned by people who, under this new hypothetical legislation, aren't allowed to own them. Hard to just take them off the people especially as they presumably aren't gonna just hand them over all the time.
There's also other issues such as the potential black market - one of the reasons why tobacco isn't banned.
So while I do support the idea, I accept it would be very difficult to legislate.
↩ MagAgentV3 Then dont warn people
ok from here on, no more funny "OH DEAR THIS THREAD IS GONNA BE A SHITSHOW". its not quirky anymore yes its TF its gonna be a shit show eventually once the fuckin uni thesis's come in n shit but thats not right now
