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Mass shooting in Orlando
- Thread starter lawros left foot
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Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,366
Stupid bastid Yank gun laws. They just won't learn, will they? Obama tried his damnest and failed to rein them in. Trump just advocates more guns.
Nah, he'll just put it down as 'fake news' and get back to opening up some coal mines.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Wonder if Theresa May will start tweeting insults about the Mayor of Orlando ?
B52
New member
Just what I was thinking
Bladders
Twats everywhere
Americans think we're just as stupid for not carrying guns. 
Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!
Looks like a great tweet now Donald.
Looks like a great tweet now Donald.
Has he Tweeted that all industrial estate workers are "losers", need to be "obliterated" and imposed a travel ban on them?
What do you mean?
Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
Yeah, it was funny one really, even for him, considering that the Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge attackers would all certainly have killed many more people if they had had guns, which they would surely have had if our gun laws were as loose as they are in the US.
Look, I love industrial estate workers. They're great people, I've employed thousands of industrial estate workers covfefe
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
The main root of the problem is not gun ownership. It's US culture and their readiness to use guns to settle grudges. There are similar levels of gun ownership in may countries but the US is the only one with a problem with mass shootings as a regular occurrence.
Tighter gun laws would obviously help improve matters but it's not too wild a leap to suggest that if all the guns were removed from US society tomorrow then they would start mass stabbings because the culture of violence hasn't been addressed at all.
Tighter gun laws would obviously help improve matters but it's not too wild a leap to suggest that if all the guns were removed from US society tomorrow then they would start mass stabbings because the culture of violence hasn't been addressed at all.
The Spanish
Well-known member
Not sure mate. You could argue that the UK has a brawling culture that the US doesnt have. You don't see people rolling around in the gutter on South Beach on a Friday night.
And the US is not an isolated case - The Philippines is similar in terms of firearms to the US, for example. No one ever discusses that. The US is just the place we relate and refer to most culturally and drives a lot of our media.
The world is awash with firearms.
TSB
Captain Hindsight
Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine' stated that gun ownership per head in Canada is actually higher than the US.
But their gun murder rate is about 1/100th of that across the border.
I suspect that the poverty rate in America is far higher than any other developed country and that will likely contribute. But some of it must be mindset.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Okay, let me amend my point - there are other first world countries with similar levels of gun ownership that don't have regular mass shootings because the point still stands. There doesn't seem to be a direct correlation between high levels of gun ownership and mass shootings.