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It turns to guns because it is the elephant in the room 30 to 50% of the population refuses to address. I never said we shouldnt disregard mental illness. I specifically mentioned it needs to be one of the issues addressed as well. But lets not pretend like the US is the only issue with mental...

It's funny how you conveniently left out the full second amendment. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State As former Chief Justice Warren Burger said (a lifelong conservative who was appointed by Nixon), "The gun lobby's interpretation of the Second...

Anti American? Do you think rights have free reign and cannot be limited? Have you ever tried protesting in front of an embassy? Even in Heller, Justice Scalia explicitly held that it can be regulated. “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment right is not unlimited…. [It...

I don't know where this idea that there was no gun violence in the past and less shootings. In certain respects, gun violence rates are less in recent years than in past decades. The increase in the number of total deaths is likely due to an increase in population. The increase of deaths per...

Virtually no school shootings prior to 1993? There have been shootings at school almost yearly, if not yearly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(before_2000) The only difference is that the amounts of shootings have increased and the amount of children...

If you want to equate a one time terrorist event where 150 people were murdered to our issue involving yearly school/mass shootings, to somehow justify our laws, go for it. Id rather try to tackle real issues and not live in fantasy land. The National Firearms Act that was passed on 1934...

You have to be careful with data like this. There's a reason why this time frame is chosen and these stats are framed like they are. As you can see from the images I attached, France and Norway's attacks are from large scale terrorist attacks (I believe one was from Isis). It's not really the...