Neither America, nor any other country on Earth, will ever completely conquer insanity and evil. You would be wrong to assume that we have more of it here than do most other countries.
There are loopy morons no matter where you go. However, you would be wrong to assume you have less than countries that have a functioning public education system.
The greatest issue is the ease of which said loopy morons can gain access to advanced weaponry in the US.
Most countries have had at least once incident like this in the last 100 years. The US seems to have one a year, and lesser events weekly.
First of all, I definitely do not hope that we restrict the rights of our own citizens to purchase firearms in the hope of reducing incidents such as these, for the very good reason that most of our citizens are not insane.
Secondly, what penalty do you propose to put on the purchase or ownership of firearms that will not deter someone who is not deterred by the penalties on multiple first-degree homicides?
Wow even in Australia they know. Yes there was another one here. But what gets me about the media is why does this get so much attention and other things happen in the world and they don't? Would the media care if this happened in Iraq or Africa? What about those victims? Aren't those peoples live just as important and tragic if something happens to poor people in Africa????
The media do report about the most extreme attacks in the Iraq, like this bombing killing at least 40 Shia pilgrims near a mosk in Diwaniya . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18685506 I only found this because I was searching for news like these prompted by your comment. To be cynical: business as usual. Right now bombings and attacks on civilians are the daily life in Iraq. So is hunger and indiscriminate killing in many countries across Africa. Fights between drug cartells killing innocent bystanders in South America. We can relate to the US shooting because it happened in a society very similar to ours and to which we have strong cultural and economic ties. I wish empathy was working better in mankind. There are people helping like the churches and their relief programs, but that flies well under the radar for most of the time.
Yeah sad but true. The mass killings in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, south east Asia, China and so on are reported in the media here.
The thing is people generally expect atrocities and moral failure in tinpot despot 3rd world shitholes. In the last 40 years there have been two killing sprees in Australia (the last in 1996), Three in the UK and three in Finland. In the USA there has been 19.
So called first world countries such as most of Europe, Australia and England don't have this happen very often in modern times. The USA (for whatever reason, and is always the source of heated debate) is a sad and unfortunate exception.
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However, you would be wrong to assume you have less than countries that have a functioning public education system.
The greatest issue is the ease of which said loopy morons can gain access to advanced weaponry in the US.
Most countries have had at least once incident like this in the last 100 years. The US seems to have one a year, and lesser events weekly.
PS: Somehow, this is Obama's fault.
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Secondly, what penalty do you propose to put on the purchase or ownership of firearms that will not deter someone who is not deterred by the penalties on multiple first-degree homicides?
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Secondly, I propose nothing at all; but since you ask, my suggestion is that a good start is ( ... )
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The media do report about the most extreme attacks in the Iraq, like this bombing killing at least 40 Shia pilgrims near a mosk in Diwaniya .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18685506
I only found this because I was searching for news like these prompted by your comment. To be cynical: business as usual. Right now bombings and attacks on civilians are the daily life in Iraq. So is hunger and indiscriminate killing in many countries across Africa. Fights between drug cartells killing innocent bystanders in South America. We can relate to the US shooting because it happened in a society very similar to ours and to which we have strong cultural and economic ties. I wish empathy was working better in mankind. There are people helping like the churches and their relief programs, but that flies well under the radar for most of the time.
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The mass killings in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, south east Asia, China and so on are reported in the media here.
The thing is people generally expect atrocities and moral failure in tinpot despot 3rd world shitholes. In the last 40 years there have been two killing sprees in Australia (the last in 1996), Three in the UK and three in Finland. In the USA there has been 19.
So called first world countries such as most of Europe, Australia and England don't have this happen very often in modern times. The USA (for whatever reason, and is always the source of heated debate) is a sad and unfortunate exception.
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