Faulty logic

[sikander7]

Is the USA going bonkers? The killings in Colorado have resulted not in a desire to reduce guns, but to increase them! An article in the New Zealand Herald, though originally from the UK Independent, says that Colorado residents are queuing to purchase guns. So the best way to deal with a dangerous situation is to be willing and able to get in to a

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[kk1raven]

The US isn't going bonkers. It went bonkers some time ago. Neither major presidential candidate is likely to do anything about gun control because the gun nuts have a huge amount of power and going against them is often political suicide. (Not all people who own guns are gun nuts. The nuttier ones seem to be the ones who make themselves heard though.) I know people who are otherwise reasonable who really do believe that more guns will result in less crime. If everyone was mentally healthy, never made mistakes, and a good shot, that might even be true, but this country has plenty of people who aren't mentally healthy, who make mistakes, and who aren't necessarily really good at hitting what they shoot at. My grandparents had an old gun. Someone broke into their house while they slept, picked up their gun, and pointed it at them. So much for the gun making them safer.

[vflick]

yes, they're crazy. Gun culture is insane. You can't even talk about the tiniest thing, such as possibly limiting the average person's ability to get their hands on a machine gun, without someone accusing you of being a socialist. (which, hilariously, is meant as the ultimate insult

[sikander7]

It is also completely bizarre than neither candidate for the presidential election dares to say anything about the issue of gun control. The USA prides itself on being a democracy yet there can be no debate on an issue that causes massive numbers of deaths per year.

[vflick]

To bring it up would be instant political suicide...

[sikander7]

So when will the country that prides itself on democracy, and forcibly imposes the system on countries that are nowhere near developed enough, reform its voting system. A more realistic representation would stop the current separation between the plutocracy and the ordinary people.
And people could express their opinion on guns.