School Shooting In My Neighborhood

[Danallica]

before this thread turns into another bush bashing one; i would like to say i agree with you Bob Garage that the stupid arms laws should be revoked, but i think that it would cause such an outrage amongst many Americans i just dont see how it is going to change.

[superman321]

As a serious question, can an american on this board please explain to me why some of you fellow Americans think guns are so cool? This is a serious question because I realise there are gun lovers all over the world, but it does appear that Americans really love their firearms and as a gun hater, I really can't understand this. I also ask because the best response I have ever been given to this question is essentially 'because they're cool'.

[5tokesy]

Kinda sad this happens so close to the 10th anniversay of Dumblane. (Scottish town when some guy shot up a primary school)

[fey-metallica]

Jake already said all the things I'd like to say about this. It's sad to happen at your school especially when you knew one of the people involved. I just don't get kids with the age of 14 who have the opportunity to buy a gun and just kill (or hurt) somebody else.

[Leighton]

As a serious question, can an american on this board please explain to me why some of you fellow Americans think guns are so cool? This is a serious question because I realise there are gun lovers all over the world, but it does appear that Americans really love their firearms and as a gun hater, I really can't understand this. I also ask because the best response I have ever been given to this question is essentially 'because they're cool'.

Australia still holds the record for the highest single offender massacre in the world... and he used guns. Then you get the Heston wannabes come out of the woodwork claiming that it would've been great if only someone at Port Auther had his own gun to cut Bryant down.

What would've been great is guns having never been thought of at all.

It's sad that Americans still think that a law written 230 years ago can still be implied today despite the obvious technological differences that they had in those days. It's also poinless when the law is written so that you can have them only to take down the Government if the need comes... yet people leave them around the house so kids can shoot themselves with.

It's even sadder that the majority of gun-lovers are so brainwashed by their ideals that they don't see the need for change at all, let alone with an entire Government (Timothy McVeigh excluded of course).

[Doin]

Lots of gun-loving nutcases means more votes which means 'let's not isolate them in our campaign...'

[Judge B]

Lots of gun-loving nutcases means more votes which means 'let's not isolate them in our campaign...'

Also, NRA has always been funding presidential campaigns.

[superman321]

Don't they spend something like $300'000'000 every year on political campaigns in America? That is a trully staggering amount of money, and probably goes some way to give reason why pro-gun politicians are so common. I mean, with that amount of money, a great deal of campaigning can be done.

[Danallica]

Its not just the states who are gun toating maciacs - dont forget all over the middle east and places in Africa are 100s times worse

[superman321]

yeah, I think we are all refering though to western democratic countries here. Places elsewhere are many times worse, its just for gun murders in western nations, America seems to be the worst.