That’s a good observation. I wonder if it’s true that intelligent people are more likely to kill themselves than someone else. What are the murder rates vs suicide rates of japan? Murder rate = 6.2/100k and suicide rate = 26/100k. Japan is has the 3rd highest IQ by country (105). Switzerland is 101 and the US is 98. I bet one could correlate murder and suicide rates with iq.
If so, the murder problem could be ended with education, but then we’d have a suicide problem.
Another thing to note, drug dealers often enough also sell illegal guns. At least that is my impression living across the United States within its societal fringes over the years.
It’s because drug gangs are usually armed to the teeth where when they aren’t smuggling drugs everywhere they’re smuggling guns as well. Think of it as profit diversification on the part of organized crime at large.
Ideas floating around now is teachers being able to do their jobs with conceal and carry permits having firearms on themselves.
“Alright little Billy, if you don’t recite your ABC’s I am going to fire a round in your face!” 
I love the rotting smell of a disgusting decadent dying society breathing its last gasps of air.
It looks like the chillruns with the media corporate spotlight now are leading the charge to ban assault weapons and tougher gun regulations in the country. Will organized chillruns being used in the latest national political circus be the tipping point in disarming a majority of the United States population?
Let’s find out…
United States economically collapsing and gearing up for world conflict militarily where within the domestic front the sole focus being on disarmament under various facades of public safety.
Nope, I’m sure there is no correlation within all of that at all. It’s probably nothing…
You’re out of touch with reality.
Try to kill 10 people with a knife, compared to using an AR-15.
Be honest.
You obviously haven’t been paying attention to knife attacks in England, Sweden, France, and Germany.
You’re even dumber than I had thought. A teacher with a conceal and carry somehow equals using that concealed and carried gun to threaten their own students? There is absolutely zero correlation here. And zero reasoning.
The only rotting disgusting smell here is coming from you, from where your brain used to be.
It’s easier to kill 10 people with an AR-15 than it is a knife.
You and Gloominary are taking a foolish position. Is that the argument you want to defend, that it’s in any “comparable” or similar to kill people with knives instead of guns?
It was a joke man, lighten up. It does however illustrate a zero trust society which the United States represents very well socially.
I am arguing that there are numerous ways for individuals or groups of people to go on a mass murder spree where even if you got rid of guns it’s still going to happen. There are numerous ways of killing large numbers of people without the usage of guns. That’s just the most basic simple method, there are other ways most people haven’t even contemplated where it is as easy as getting household supplies from your local Home Depot.
Also, I don’t like the idea of a disarmed population because I already don’t trust (or like) the current United States government where I would definitely not trust it even more if it held on all the weapons.
It should be common sense.
It’s obviously critical how people go on killing sprees. It’s as different as the Florida school massacre versus 9-11. Whether you use an AR-15, or an airplane, the means is obviously important. Discounting the how is just foolish.
You people are so focused on the tools of killing that none of you dare go into the behavioral sociological motivations, causes, and reactions of it. Until you cross into those murky waters of human nature nothing changes, nothing changes at all. Most people are afraid or are unwilling to because it would destroy a lot of narratives within society now that a majority just take for granted. You all are concerned with the symptoms but not the actual causes.
I can easily go into the why along with the how.
The point is how society can go about limiting the damage caused by mass-murderers. Not many people address the why, but the how is more obvious. Bullying, for example, I don’t think people are really serious about changing that behavior. There will always be weak, meek members of society, who becoming the whipping-boys and girls. These are the ones who do go on rampages, as acts of vengeance and revenge, against the ones who oppress them. But I don’t want to misconstrue the blame. It’s not a matter of “who’s the bigger victim”, the shooter or the shoot-ee.
According to Leftism, everybody (except straight white males) are inherently ‘victims’ just for being born. So that argument is a lost cause.
After 9-11, it should be obvious now, the mass population is not interested in the why behind violence. The masses are focused on the ‘how’, not the why. The “why” is left to the intelligencia to figure out, and solve.
The solutions of how means nothing without addressing the why.
Also, the intelligentsia are whores that sell themselves to the highest bidder. They’re not concerned with the why either.
But then we have the country stats that show less guns = more violence and of course, kennesaw vs chicago.
In reality, I need a gun to combat critters and it’s nice to grab one when something is making a ruckus outside. Since I can’t see in the dark and don’t have fangs, claws, and thick hide, I need some advantage over the animals. And teens parked in my yard for a bj seem to take me a bit more serious if I’m tote’n when I tell them this isn’t a playground. And I know people who like to hunt and stock their freezer with meat to save a few bucks at the expense of a couple bucks that would otherwise be gnawing on my garden.
There are lots of reasons to own guns that don’t involve shooting schools and I don’t want my rights taken because of some dumbasses not fixing the problem of the poor kid who lost his mother to flu and his girlfriend to some jerk and consequently started hating everyone because they were obviously worthy of such hate or he would not have hated them. The problem is the uncaring, polarized and hateful society that drives people to such explosive lengths. That kid should have been helped long ago, but they didn’t give a shit and now they’ve inherited the wind and rather than address the problem, they want to create a safe space where they’re allowed to hate on whomever they want with no real consequences, but they won’t succeed because next it will be box trucks or dodge chargers any way one can think to explode onto the society that’s nurtured such resentment in them.
I don’t know why the vegas shooter didn’t drive a truck into the crowd. It would have been much easier than lugging dozens of guns up an elevator and then missing most of his targets. A big heavy truck would have killed 100s in one go. Then he could have shot himself in the mouth with his revolver.
Nah, when pot was illegal, you could get an ounce for $100. Now it’s $500 in a dispensary. Stolen guns sell for less than half the cost of those bought legally. And if you’re a thief, guns are free.
If it’s easier to get and carry a gun, it’s easier for, whatever you want to call them, I’m tempted to use the word ‘sociopath’, but I’m uncomfortable with how mainline psychology classifies people, additionally not all sociopaths are violent, and not all violence is committed by sociopaths, so I’ll just say violent people (which includes, but isn’t limited to spree killers, anyone who’s sufficiently violent to be potentially lethal), to get and carry a gun.
However, if it’s easier to get/carry a gun, it’s also easier for non-violent people to get/carry a gun, which deters some violent people from acting on their violent feelings, and which makes it easier for non-violent people to defend themselves and others when violent people do act on their violent feelings.
That’s not just my theory, that’s what the data shows, the data supports my theory, it doesn’t support yours.
No it wasn’t a joke, you actually made that idiotic point with no indication of joking and every indication of actually meaning what you said to be taken as you said it.
It’s also easier to kill someone with an AR-15, with an AR-15 or another kind of gun.
You really can’t take a joke. Whatever you say my serious delicate snowflake, whatever you say.