to think that the US should have an amnesty on fire arms and outlaw all of them

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FFS. How many more schools of children will it take before the US has a really serious think about it's right to bear arms. How many more children need to die and how many more candlelit vigils will they need to have before they understand that the right to carry arms carries too much of a risk.

sorry not a very coherent title but I am so angry that this happens over and over. Those poor children and those poor parents. All for nothing

Well at least permits, checks, some kind of regulation. There should be a national database to record how many guns people have/are trying to purchase for a start. In all those shootings the gunman had multiple weapons- how the fuck were they allowed to get hold of them?

I'm with you btw. Can't stop thinking about those poor people who have to plan their little ones' funerals instead of Christmas....

There are so many guns out there now, I'm not sure it would make any difference. Also, I live in Canada and we have as many guns per capita as the US, we don't go on regular shooting sprees. Possibly because Canada has free healthcare, a social safety net, we consider our neighbours our responsibility and have some provision for people who are sad, mentally ill, desperate, sick.

Not going to happen. It's an Americans right to bear arms, written into the constitution.

Many people would argue that if the teacher/s had been armed as well this wouldn't have been as bad.

Guns protect people don't cha know...

I would have no problem with that (I'm American)

Unfortunately it will never ever happen in a billion gazillion years

It does look like the Dems might try to reinstate the assault weapon ban though, which is a start.

An individual's right to bear arms is what the gun lobby has been pushing for years, and unfortunately what the Supreme Court has okayed.

Any reasonable person reading the Constitution, however, can see that this is probably not what the founders intended. It says:

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

How you get from that to any psychopath being able to buy an assault weapon is beyond me. My country is so fucked up

not going to happen.
and besides when you live in the wilderness you might need a gun to protect yourself against the wildlife.

Mousey I am fairly sure they could legislate for that! It needs to happen, unless of course you are happy for a first world country to behave in such an appalling way?

The US needs similar gun controls to the UK. When was the last time you heard of a 20 plus child massacre at a UK school?

Dunblane. .

Cumbria shooting :( (2011)

Is that true, Mrs.Terry? I live in Ontario...I didn't know that .

If that's the case then maybe it is related to social safety nets and troubled individuals falling through the cracks. We had the Marc Lepine shooting...

there have been a number of schootings in germany with many casualties.
I think (please correct me if I'm wrong) that the gun laws in germany are even stricter than in the uk.

Dunblane happened before there were strict gun control laws in this country and was the reason why they were introduced.

There are shootings in the UK but compared to the US they are few and far between. Nonetheless, the US needs to sort out it's gun control

According to Wiki it's less in Canada. However, we are right up there. So is Switzerland where almost every household has one. How many school shooting do you hear about in Switzerland?