10-01-2015, 11:26 PM
It is a totally different culture and when these shootings happen within a totally different part of the country (geographically and politically) to the areas where gun lobbies are strong of course there is a degree of detachment.
It's incomparable to Europe, many Americans sincerely believe their right to bare arms is the final and most tangable guarentee of their rights as a citizen. The level of state force that would be required to enforce adaquate levels of gun control would probably make these gun rights advocates feel entirely vindicated in their stance and would respond with violence rather than consent.
Each time something like this happens gun control comes up which is a horribly intractable argument in American society, and it diverts everyone away from the real discussion which is what are the extent of the USA's mental health problems and what is happening to young people that makes a significant number of them either consider or follow through with brutal acts of mass murder? To put it down solely to the availability of guns is wrong and ignores the fact that so many Americans simply see things differently you'll never make progress if that's the focus of your attention.
It's incomparable to Europe, many Americans sincerely believe their right to bare arms is the final and most tangable guarentee of their rights as a citizen. The level of state force that would be required to enforce adaquate levels of gun control would probably make these gun rights advocates feel entirely vindicated in their stance and would respond with violence rather than consent.
Each time something like this happens gun control comes up which is a horribly intractable argument in American society, and it diverts everyone away from the real discussion which is what are the extent of the USA's mental health problems and what is happening to young people that makes a significant number of them either consider or follow through with brutal acts of mass murder? To put it down solely to the availability of guns is wrong and ignores the fact that so many Americans simply see things differently you'll never make progress if that's the focus of your attention.