^^^ P.R I don't see many licensed shooters killing people with guns either.
I do see alcoholic ocker fkheads belt their missus' with their fists.
Do we we ban fists? Maybe alcohol? Oohh maybe arguments, or females who backchat? No, we have penalties for the offenders.
In all these threads here I have seen the (minority) of lefties want to ban guns.
None of you leftie types yet have been able to answer my question in all those previous arguments - why we did not see mass shootings in the 1940's to 1970's when gun ownership was at it's highest???
Society is to blame, not the gun, and that is patently obvious. It is the (failed) policies of the loony left social engineers that have enabled it to happen.
P.R from your link I see roughly 55 shootings in 100 years up to 1980, then 60 plus in the last 30yrs since.
A fourfold increase in shootings per year is not to be scoffed at.
Yes OK, I was wrong as I said there was not any. However I stand by the assertion that the gun is not to blame, changing society is. Again, 4x increase is pretty hefty.
Come on Mark, Even if our international leftist plan does work and we manage to ban all guns you've still got yer whitlin.
Army cadets!!! Haha. Who'd join? the world's moved on Cisco. And anyway what's with your fascination with guns,the military and shooting things? How about an "environment cadets" or a "peace corps" or a "civil defence" thing. Why the necessity to use a military force model?
I have nothing against big guns at all. Had fun shooting a few in Vietnam and after the missus said 'pick something girly for me' I got her on a 30cal Machine Gun. Good times. But... can't really see any legitimate need for them here. Farm rifle/shotgun, sure. But full auto or military weapons? Not gonna add anything.
We are gonna see more and more crims with guns here, smuggled in. It's just a fact of life considering the rest of the world's awash with them, and crims with drug money here will pay 10-50 times cost price for someone smart enough to get them in. Same with tazers.
For the oldies in the thread - stats say that rape, violent and gun crime actually falls when teenage guys have access to violent video games. Rather than 'train mass killers' or whatever fearmongering piffle the AM radio's been spreading, the stats prove the opposite. It gives them a fantasy outlet for their aggression without bringing it into the real world.
Considering that Call Of Duty is the most lucrative entertainment stream in the world, and to borrow Joe Hockey's counting system it sells approximately eleventy billion copies, I think there's a big enough sample size for the stats to be accurate.
It gets pretty funny when you track back these 'violent video game' fear stories and they started with the commodore 64. Imagine the realism they were complaining about back then!