Gun Control thread (merged many)

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

I'm wondering how many of those school shootings were gang related. The definition used was one dead with more victims intended.

Gangs are not a purely American problem.

August, that article was going well until

Oddly, the political left, which demands more federal gun control in the hope of protecting life, adamantly supports abortion. Over the past four decades or so, some 53 million abortions have taken place in the U.S. Whatever your position on abortion, whether you believe that which is taken is life or just tissue, there is a collective psychic cost to it all.

Then it fell over. But certainly there is a more violent culture today than many years ago, although to be honest there has always been a violent undertone in culture, it's just more at the forefront these days than before. Why is this? No idea, current people blame social media, before that it was games, before that it was televisions, before that it was movies, and before that it was music.