Maybe you should ask me what my thoughts are before assuming my position. I agree with them doing it in DC, as that is under their jurisdiction. I'm against it everywhere else in general, but I could understand it if there was a massive crime tsunami that severely crippled the city and the local and state governments refused to stop it.
That data is suspect as revealed by the footnotes to it.
Based on reports from around the world, and the data of multiple sources, it is at the very least fair to conclude that since 1999 there have been more people shot to death in American schools than in any other country. There will be statistical discrepancies based on how each individual source defines a school shooting. For example, some sources are reporting the Minneapolis shooting as a church shooting, while others are calling it a school shooting.
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You are absolutely right, and we can stop the vast majority of those nutjobs. Your party won't like one bit how they are identified though. It will be labeled with some sort of 'phobic' label. Profiling works. (Ask El Al airlines)
You didn‘t raise the question of how EASY or FREQUENT different modes of attack were. You focused on speed and how many deaths would occur per unit time in your effort to criticize people pointing out the obvious fact that if guns are unavailable, people will find other ways to kill people and that knives were slower and easier to avoid. So if time and efficiency are your metric, then your criticism falls flat as explosives are speedier than guns in the same way that guns are speedier than knives.
Based on reports from around the world, and the data of multiple sources, it is at the very least fair to conclude that since 1999 there have been more people shot to death in American schools than in any other country. There will be statistical discrepancies based on how each individual source defines a school shooting. For example, some sources are reporting the Minneapolis shooting as a church shooting, while others are calling it a school shooting.
.... and you shouldn't bring up the mental illness of some of these shooters and not address the ease of access to firearms that some of them have had, in spite of their diagnosis of mental illness and being on prescription medication for it. The 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter from Newtown, Connecticut, Adam Lanza, wasn't just a dangerous person because of a mental illness or because of any prescribed medication that he was under. He was also dangerous because his mother, Nancy Lanza, was an irresponsible gun owner, who didn't safeguard her arsenal of firearms from her son, who she obviously knew to be mentally ill. She kept a vast array of guns in an unlocked closet in their house. However, because her son killed her before killing 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there is nobody for law enforcement to hold accountable for this awful tragedy. So, what do we do? Nothing.
Friends: Newtown Gunman's Mother Home-Schooled Son, Kept Arsenal Of Guns
The mother of Newtown, Conn., elementary school gunman Adam Lanza spent her time at home taking care of her son who could not deal with school, and kept an arsenal of guns at home, "60 Minutes" reported Sunday night.
Friend: Nancy Lanza did not secure guns in spite of worries about son - UPI.com
Nancy Lanza kept her guns in an unlocked closet in her Newtown, Conn., home as she grew increasingly worried about her son's mental state, a friend says.
It's not easy to involuntarily institutionalize the mentally ill, unless they have attempted suicide or committed a crime, especially when they have a foolish parent who is enabling them.
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It's not easy to involuntarily institutionalize the mentally ill, unless they have attempted suicide or committed a crime, especially when they have a foolish parent who is enabling them.
Documents: Lanza's Mother Gave Newtown Shooter Holiday Card, Check To Buy Another Gun
Adam Lanza's shocking attack took place 11 days before Christmas, and search warrants show his mother was going to give him a gift -- of yet another gun -- to add to his arsenal of firearms, knives and swords
How stupid must Nancy Lanza have been? She knows her son is suffering from psychosis ..... so she buys him guns for Christmas. You can't protect society from idiots like her and her crazy kid. Impossible.
