At least 15 dead in US college shooting

[lucaskf390]

Guns are part of the US culture, they just need to make sure to truly test gun owners mind, most of these shooters are young, so they could ask them to renew the test in a short period of time and the older they get, less often they have to renew the test.

[AgnesIO]

Guns are part of the US culture, they just need to make sure to truly test gun owners mind, most of these shooters are young, so they could ask them to renew the test in a short period of time and the older they get, less often they have to renew the test.

'culture'. Move on.

[lucaskf390]

Kids learn how to shoot, grow up and then teach their own children to shoot, isnt that a culture?

[FlyingJesus]

Even if it is it doesn't make it a good thing

[Red]

Guns are part of the US culture, they just need to make sure to truly test gun owners mind, most of these shooters are young, so they could ask them to renew the test in a short period of time and the older they get, less often they have to renew the test.

How is it feasible to test every person regularly. I don't see how this type of test could work as people can put up facades.

[lucaskf390]

How is it feasible to test every person regularly. I don't see how this type of test could work as people can put up facades.

I dont know exactly how the guns law in usa is, but here where I live, in Brazil, to have a gun you need to give several documents, have several tests (including mental), and your gun is registered, you need to renew that register every three years - to renew is demanded your mental test (which cant be older than 1year). So what I'm proposing is, for different ages, different gaps between tests, and if you dont renew the test and keep the gun, you lose the gun, police go your house and take your gun. If this law is applied in a country like Brazil, its much much much easier to be applied in the USA.

[Matt]

Listening to how they had to play dead to survive, horrible

RIP to those that lost their lives

[-:Undertaker:-]

@conservative;

Not at all. I have already given the example of Switzerland which has very lax gun laws but does not have this problem.

The Second Amendment was put into the Constitution by the Founding Fathers as a final defence against tyanny arising in America. It was put in there so that the state could never become too out of control or else the people can rise up and overthrow it: hence why the act most dictators first introduce when they take over is to demand the seizure of all guns in order to prevent any threat to their power. The Second Amendment is staying and cannot be removed in that constitutional republic, so you and other anti-gun campaigners - including the hypocrite-in-chief Obama - are just going to have to get over that.

It's interesting too how skewed you are on this, mainly due to British media refusing to ever cover the stories: all the time in America and every day people's lives and safety are saved by guns. There's tonnes of stories out there of old ladies on their own or young families successfully defending themselves with guns.

[FlyingJesus]

Saved by guns in situations that only arise because of guns... and mass shootings nearly every single day. A lack of gun crime in Switzerland just means that laws don't need to be changed in Switzerland, but laws obviously can't be universal when cultures are so different from country to country. If there's a problem you tackle it, you don't say "oh but someone else is ok with it like this"

[-:Undertaker:-]

Saved by guns in situations that only arise because of guns...

Um... no? If somebody is breaking into your house you could end up murdered, kidnapped or be raped. We see countless stories in this country of old women or old people in general targeted because they live alone and they're savagely beaten to an inch of their lives because they're defenceless.

and mass shootings nearly every single day.

No they don't.

A lack of gun crime in Switzerland just means that laws don't need to be changed in Switzerland, but laws obviously can't be universal when cultures are so different from country to country. If there's a problem you tackle it, you don't say "oh but someone else is ok with it like this"

But but but if guns are legal doesn't that mean everyone dies. Oh wait no because Switzerland doesn't have these problems with lax gun laws.

If you want to tackle a problem with the guns in America, what needs to be tackled is the enormous doping of the population which many of the killers tend to be on. In addition, tackle the gang violence in black neighbourhoods (which is where most of it all takes place) and the drug gangs from Mexico coming over the border. And bring an end to these absurd "Gun free zones" on state property which means everyone there is a sitting duck for a pyscho who has snapped.