Thats just because the first bullet sometimes wont kill instantly, and its to make sure. Also at these shootings the person is often unskilled, and kills themselves fairly quickly allowing medics in, to help the wounded before the bleed to death., in a society where shootings are fairly common the doctors get good at treating them.
US shoppers killed in gun rampage
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Thats just because the first bullet sometimes wont kill instantly, and its to make sure. Also at these shootings the person is often unskilled, and kills themselves fairly quickly allowing medics in, to help the wounded before the bleed to death., in a society where shootings are fairly common the doctors get good at treating them.
Shocking, the killer was only 19 what a screwed up life he must have lived to be able to go and sluaghter 8 people shopping for Christmas presents.
Having access to guns gives people the easy opportunity to use them freely and having such a weapon in your home does not give them the same "lethal weapon" we have, I have never seen a gun or used one but a 19 year old American has one, can easily use it and no worries about using it.
Having access to guns gives people the easy opportunity to use them freely and having such a weapon in your home does not give them the same "lethal weapon" we have, I have never seen a gun or used one but a 19 year old American has one, can easily use it and no worries about using it.
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If guns were banned and this guy still wanted to be famous he would've got a gun anyway, used a sword, a bomb, a knife.. etc.....
Not really.
Bombs are banned and cannot be purchased from the high street.
How far do you think a man would get with trying to stab peole with a knife or a gun - in fact how many do you think he will be able to kill? He will need to over power them and then plunge the knife in deep.
With a gun you point, pull the trigger and the rest is down to science.
In an ideal world guns would be legaal. I don't like the government puting restrictions on us that reduce our freedom. I would love to own a ak and have the odd blast at a target with it.
But not everyone is able to control temselves. Guns arn't needed like cars are for example which are also dangerous.
It is a tricky situation but are lives are easier with them being banned. Maybe when we are more educated and healthy as a society as a whole and there is less murder in general. In a long time...
But not everyone is able to control temselves. Guns arn't needed like cars are for example which are also dangerous.
It is a tricky situation but are lives are easier with them being banned. Maybe when we are more educated and healthy as a society as a whole and there is less murder in general. In a long time...
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You have to pity the Americans. They never know when King George is going to pop over and steal their land. They need their guns to stop him.
He wanted to be famous!
On other news if England had guns it would probably be far, far worse than America.
Happy slapping? Happy shooting.
Shooting a mall up is no way to get famous ffs...
The whole celebrity and materialistic lifestyle thing really is one of the worst things to come out of America(as well as stupid gun laws)
So there are more gun deaths in countries where there are guns? That's like saying that there's more car deaths caused by people who own cars and not really a reasonable statistic to roll out.
If someone was really bothered about getting hold of a bomb, I'm sure they could make their own - could quite probably get instuctions on the internet.
Yes that was half my point. It's the necessarily the fact that guns are available, rather how tight the gun control is.
But anyway, full automatic or not, you can still go on a shooting rampage with them. Look at Columbine for example, the kids were too scared to even move, they just sat under tables praying whilst the shooters picked them off, didn't matter if they had fully automatic weapons or not (They didn't have fully automatic weapons).
It's easy to say it's the person behind the gun, but they'd struggle to go on 'rampages' without one. The gun gives a false feeling of power and makes doing something so tragic a lot easier. Remove the gun and you remove a lot of preblems.
Hungerford
Dunblane
Guns where legal to an extent and look what happened, how many rampages do you see now in this country with guns? A few psychos have got hold of knifes and stabbed a few people to death but like nothing like Hungerford or Dunblane.
Guns are still legal and there are have been no shooting rampages in UK since.
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