But it’s drag shows that should be banned… THINK OF THE CHILDREN! WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!

I will never understand that.

Political greed and payoffs. Screw the veterans, the kids, the elderly, the sick and the hungry. But let's have guns and ban ways of life that THEY don't agree with. It makes me sick that those same elderly, sick and hungry will keep voting for these people.

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They are not more important but definitely my right!!!

Same.

Srsly. I was in college when Columbine happened and sis was in high school. Next day, someone called in a bomb threat there, and protocol was to evac everyone out to the sports field. Happened all the time when I went there, and it had even become a sort of running "joke" that if someone really wanted to hurt us they'd call in a threat and wait on the bleachers with a sniper rifle. So instead of going to the field that day, half the students just walked out and went home or to friends' houses.

It's not a genration thing, rather it's a country thing: active shooter drills are unknown outside the US.

Gen-X had to worry about bomb threats. The weapon has changed, but there were still problems when we were kids.

I cannot imagine, BananaMonkey... The trauma your generation has endured.

I hope your generation will be able to succeed where mine have not and change the situation. Damn all the lawmakers that live safe lives with their pockets lined with NRA cash.

And me, BananaMonkey

Same. What makes it even worse is that the HS I applied to recently had a school shooting (after I applied and got accepted)

There is a big difference in using guns and using knives. In Europe knife attacks are more common because the people who do them don’t have access to guns. Where I am from people have a lot of guns, because hunting is common, but guns are strictly regulated and gun licence is easily taken away. Would you rather run into a person with an gun or a knife? Police can disarm a person with a knife fairly easily. Years ago there was a terrorist stabbing random people in a marketplace. A lot of normal people were chasing him and trying to make him stop so his efforts were quite inefficient and he managed to kill only 2 people in 3 minutes. Police came, and since he didn’t respond to the commands about letting go of the knife, the police shot him in the leg, disarming him. Imagine if he had a gun, he could’ve killed 10 times more people in 3 minutes, and he would’ve been harder to stop.

The difference might be Matthias, that people with psychiatric instability are preselected before they go into the army. And although a lot we have an issue with knive attacks recently, it would have been worse if they owned a gun. But I agree, there might be other factors contributing to the gun violence.

There are huge differences in gun ownership/laws between SUI and the US. -SUI requires training in gun safety and shooting and you have to pass a test before buying guns. Not so in the U.S. -SUI requires that a contract between seller and buyer be filled out and sent to local authorities for all gun sales. Each gun sale is recorded with all of the seller's and buyer's info. In the US private gun sales don't require anything but an exchange of money. In SUI, it's not just convicted criminals addicts who are barred from buying guns; anyone who has violent behavior can be barred. In the US, only a felony conviction, documented domestic abuse or severe mental illness bars people from buying guns. A person with a history of violent misdemeanors can buy as many guns as they want. In the US, nearly 50% of all gun sales are at gun shows, where no background checks or documentation is required. And it's legal.

The rate of knife crime in the US is higher than in Europe (for example see the knife related murders in the UK vs in the US: https://homesteadauthority.com/knife-crime-statistics-uk-vs-us/) Compared to other Western countries the US is notably more violent.

Very good points!!!

So, half the country and more than half the lawmakers are sociopaths? I'd agree but it doesn't seem likely. I think there are a lot of people out there conditioned to think their "thoughts and prayers" mean something.

This comments needs to move up the list.