(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Sadly, mass shootings are a thing in our society. However, far too many people are far too quick to place the blame on the gun, instead of the person responsible. We blame drunk drivers for crashing and killing people, bombers for creating bombs that kill people, and stabbers for stabbing someone...but yet when it comes to guns, we blame the gun and try to ban or restrict them. Today's mass shooting, like every other recent high profile mass shooting, took place in a so called "gun free zone" where it is posted by the owners that guns are not allowed. Here's the problem. CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY THE FUCKING LAW. So by posting up a facility as a gun free zone, all you are doing is making it an extremely easy target for someone planning something nefarious, since most law abiding citizens won't bring a gun into the gfz. Yet, look up at the times where someone with a gun stopped someone else who had opened fire. You don't hear about them, because they never had a chance to become a mass shooting since a good guy with a gun stopped the bad guy with the gun before he could do serious damage. Point and case: Gun control doesn't work, and gun free zones are like big painted targets for mass shooters. Now, I'm not so bad as to say we shouldn't have background checks, but instead of our government trying to institute MORE background checks and other restrictions like standard capacity magazine bans, Modern Sporting Rifle (omg it's a gun but it looks extra scary, lets ban it) etc. why not actually fix and enforce the current laws on the books? The current National Instant Check System should do the job, but being a government handled entity, it has it's failure. Fix that and enforce other laws instead of trying to take away the rights of millions of law abiding gun owners.


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The first link proves that its mostly knife violence. Also, everything over there happens in very poor London boroughs where violence is rife. The gun violence in the US happens anywhere. You just don't see shooters entering malls or schools shooting innocent people. Most of the violence is pre-meditated in the UK. You can link me to violence in Europe all you want, but you can't disprove that Europe does not have mass shootings of innocent people as regularly as America.

But... you can lol. There is a massive difference between a pre-meditating shooting and just shooting random innocent bystanders. Your laziness to not even see the difference just shows that I'm right.

I mean they are planned for, obviously, but they hardly have just one target. They are not shooting a person because of something they've done, they're just shooting random students or mall shoppers.

Of course gun violence is terrible. Maybe my English was wrong. But normally who are killed due to guns in the UK are killed because they were targeted by the shooter. A mass shooting at a mall or school isn't really targeted at one specific person, rather its just the shooter trying to make a name for himself. Both are terrible, of course, but there is a massive difference between a shooting spree and killing a guy you know because of something he did.