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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I went to a "trendy" cafe / coffee shop for lunch a few months ago near our office, which is on the edge of the campus of the University of Michigan. A college girl sitting next to me in the cafe reached into her laptop bag and as well as he laptop coming out also came a 9mm pistol. She was a hot blonde too.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
Huh?
Criminals operate outside the law, isn't that what makes them criminals? Truth of the matter is most of the people carrying out shootings like this weren't anything more than you're average person that got incredibly pissed off with something. The difference being in the US that average guy can arm himself like a soldier easier than he can buy beer.
In other countries with strict gun control that person would go out to town and start a fight, they may even take a knife or a bat but they wouldn't be able harm a significant amount of people before someone stops him, different story with an assault rifle though.
You seem to be of the opinion that good guys with guns stops bad guys with guns, the reality is it just means the criminals need more guns, bigger guns and be prepared to shoot first. It raises the stakes, it doesn't make anything safer.
"We're totally ineffective at enforcing laws which stop criminals getting guns, so I guess we'd better just give everyone guns and make it a shooting gallery."
Both had severe mental health issues.
Those are the only 2 examples I can think of in 10 years here and I have to say I feel really safe here.
A few things:
Almost all Swiss males go to the army. They can keep their gun. They are taught to respect them.
Swiss are very law abiding.
Guns and gun ownership is not romantised
You can't buy a gun over the counter
You certainly can't own semi automatic assult weapons Edit: Apparently you can.
Shooting ranges are fairly sedate affairs.
You can't wander around with a gun. Edit again you can with a permit.
I think all of those things make a difference. Even if the American population could change its attitude a bit... things might improve.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/bearing-arms_how-gun-loving-switzerland-regulates-its-firearms/43573832?srg_sm_campaign=general&srg_sm_medium=soc&srg_sm_source=sflow
These look like theyre available to the public
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/388966/hornady-critical-defense-ammunition-9mm-luger-115-grain-flex-tip-expanding-box-of-25
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Made In United States of America"This ammunition was designed by Hornady to expand every single time. This ammunition is new production, non-corrosive, in boxer primed, reloadable brass cases
56p per bullet. Cheaper than a packet of chicken noodle soup mix
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Loner or loser has a grudge against the world, gets his gun kills as many people as he can and then turns the gun on himself.
Plenty of people like that here but no way of slaughtering lots of innocent people.
It's simply the proliferation of guns in the US that is the problem and the Americans won't give them up.
No amount of hand wringing from (as they see it) meek government controlled liberal lefties in foreign countries is going to stop them.
It's the obverse side to the American dream.
Well that's reassuring to know - wouldn't want to be leaving just shallow wound cavities in my ex-classmates.
An interesting read if you've got the time, published a few weeks before Florida.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I was there before, during and after 9/11 and it really was a pivotal moment. All of the underlying traits that have fully bubbled up today were there to some extent at the time but the country became even more polarised, topics politicised, political correctness and liability fear taken to the edge of extreme, and a persistent sort of collective paranoia took hold.
The rhetoric is scary, ''pure evil" "mental health" "let's not talk about gun control" "harden the soft targets". Very few seem to be questioning that this is not normal behaviour.
Or maybe they've just accepted it as the new normal and f÷ it.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.