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Оriginally Postеd by Flinx Evenstar
Responsible gun carrying citizens‚ good one.
If you cant leave the house without a gun then there might be something else wrong with the country than your entitlement to carry a deadly weapon.
The fucktard bought his gun in November 2010 legally, despite being flagged up as a crazy idiot likely to harm people if he had any kind of weapon. Maybe the ineptitude and lethargy in doing any kind of suitability check for firearm ownership is why you "normal" people are not allowed to carry them in public legally.
Tighten up your legislation. In Latvia you can't drive a car without obtaining many academic qualifications, keeps the idiots off the roads, you know where I'm going with this. Stop handing out guns to anyone that asks for one, have some standards ffs.
btw can someone explain to me what he was complaining about in that video, genocide in a school?! Controlling the grammar, is this an in joke? None of it made any sense.
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Stupid gun control arguments make me mad.
So he used a legally purchased gun? So what? He could have gotten an illegal one if legal wasn't an option. Crazy lone gunmen like this guy are fucking raaaaare. Sensational, but rare. And if this guy guy was sent for the mental health care he needed, the legal door should have been closed.
The vast majority of legal gun owners are not murderers. What should be mandatory is training on firearm safety and use.
Let's take a short detour for a case study of a country that used to have strict gun control, that has continued to become more and more strict: South Africa. 20 years ago, to get a gun you needed to not have a criminal record and completed a course in not shooting yourself in the face. Then you were issued a license for that firearm, and you could carry it with you wherever you pleased.
Оvеr the past 20 years gun control has progressed here to the point where it is now impossible to get a handgun legally unless you are working in law enforcement or security. Self-defense is no longer considered a valid motivation (you had to write a letter to explain why you wanted a gun). People who still have legal handguns‚ got them a long time ago. Even hunting rifles are difficult to acquire, even if you are a game farmer.
The number of legally owned firearms has decreased dramatically. Guess what hasn't gone down? Gun crime. In 2005 we passed 35 000 murders a year, which is just over 70 out of every 100 000 people, a rate about 10 times higher than in the US which is 6.4 for the same period (And violent crime has been going down steadily since the 80s in the US, that rate was 10 in 1980). By all counts, while the South African government is refusing to release the up-to-date crime statistics here currently, that number has increased even further.
We have the highest murder rate in the world. The vast majority of which are shootings. You can't buy a gun here legally. These guns are acquired illegally.
There are shitloads more guns in America per capita than there are here, legally or illegally. More guns do not translate to more violence. That's complete bullshit.
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Copy paѕtе that link‚ look at ѕomе pretty stats‚ then ѕhut thе fuck up about gun control.