There's a few comments on here defending gun ownership. 'It's the mentally ill' 'most guns for mass shootings are done with illegal guns'. Here are some facts for you: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/debunking-myths-about-gun-violence Adding my own thoughts into the mix - THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD NOT OWN GUNS!!!! Why do your gun owners care more for their sodding guns than the safety of their country?????

I've literally thrown my hands up and walked away on this one. Seriously America, WTF

American here, and a history/government teacher as well. One point that is often overlooked by those who are pro-guns is that the "allowance" in our Constitution for civilians to own guns is actually addressing state run militias, not private gun ownership. This would mean that gun ownership was not meant to be a free for all for citizens and implies that citizens would only need them in a time of crisis/war deemed by the federal government. It should also be pointed out that many people in the U.S. who are pro-gun argue that the writers of the Constitution would not support how powerful the federal government is today over state power. Many of the writers and early members of the federal government were actually supportive of a more liberal interpretation of the Constitution that favored a powerful federal government.

The stupidest and craziest tend to also be the loudest.

Gotta disarm the police before we even consider disarming regular people. Reason being is that legal ownership of guns is the ONLY way many black communities are able to protect themselves from white supremacists and the police. Funnily enough, gun control in the US (and California specifically) actually has its roots in a reactionary tendency to disarm black revolutionaries like the Black Panthers. Reagan famously advocated for gun control to disarm the panthers because they had actually been able to use legal gun ownership to pritect their communities from police abusing their position of power. So... until we solve the problem of police brutality in the US, I fon't think I can support laws that take away guns. It's not fair to black American communities who historically speaking... have no police system that will ACTUALLY protect them

This cowboy country needs a sheriff.

Americans have accepted daily mass murders. Whatever they say, their behavior makes it absolutely clear that they believe that anyone psychotic who cares to buy a guy comprises a "well regulated militia." This is hardly surprising. We're talking about a nation that bases its economy on perpetual war.

I had a shooting range inside a school as part of P.E lessons, when I was 11-13yrs old. It.never occurred to me to shoot at people, we had targets. Can't remember what the sport is called when you ski for a bit and then have to shoot the target. We have had one school shooting in Estonia that I know of, and a teacher got killed. Plenty of us grow up experiencing shooting guns, hunting rifles and I even did archery as part of school program in Ireland. I have not experienced life bullets shot in public. Fireworks is the closest I got. I don't understand how is it for your own protection, I'd nobody would be allowed then nobody is at danger? How do rest of the countries survive? 300 million population probably less if you remove the children and criminals because they can't own a gun, and yet you still have plenty to cover USA people with guns. European Union has more people, more cultures, languages, religions, views and no guns. When was the last mass shooting in Europe? Norway?

Americans... use bow and arrows, no bang. And if feeling Cockey you could always grab said arrow in your victim and jerk it around. F**k ever single one of you. Keep killing each other.

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when the government ask for your gun, buy a second one