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Originally Posted by August
Except that from the statistical point of view the opposite is true. We've never had tougher gun control laws than we do now yet these incidents seem to be occurring with greater and greater frequency. If your theory were right they should be decreasing.
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On the other hand, most first-world countries have far more restrictive gun controls in the US than there are now, and yet their incidence of violent crime is orders lower and statistically decreasing.
Though as I said in discussions on this topic before, what I think that actually points to is that the problem isn't anything to do with guns at all. It's a much wider cultural issue and reducing it to a gun control debate of "guns or no guns" is not the right approach.
Also, I find reducing this topic to "guns or no guns" extremely sad considering what actually transpired. It just shows that though the shootings keep happening, nobody learns anything. Instead, it just turns into a politicized back-and-forth, left-vs-right debate that does nothing to address the underlying cultural problems behind this. And people are willing to drop their sensitivity to this sort of thing in favour of easy political labels.