Guns: An Englishman speaks about US Gun craziness

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/07/05/british-guy-america-gun-culture/

Re:  School Shootings

“To reasonable Americans it’s horrifying. After the Port Arthur shooting, Australians stood up and said, “This is not worth the lives of children.” After Dunblane, the UK stood up and said, “This is not worth the lives of children.” After the *endless* stream of school shootings in America, Americans have stood up and said, “This is not worth the lives of children” — and the NRA (the lobbying arm of America’s arms industry) has responded, “SURE it is!”

Then the US cannot claim to be any kind of democracy. If the majority of people want things tightened, but a lobbying group is more powerful than the people, its wrong on so many levels. From the outside, it seems you are going backwards, we abolish the death penalty, you kill more, we tighten gun controls, you after each shooting seem to loosen them. Concealed carry? Open Carry? OMG, this is like the 3rd world ….. The US started so far ahead, a clean slate, a fresh start and you are going backwards. I am sure sometime soon, I will read someone has been burned at the stake for believing in Evolution, not creation. 

How does the rest of the western world manage without guns to make them more FREE and manly! Everyone I see who is carrying a gun or shoots people in the US, looks like he has one friend and he is imaginary!

The constant cry from the Gun Lobby is that you can’t get rid of guns as the bad guys will always have them. Well, let’s look at that. Australia had very similar very lax gun control laws, it also prided itself on its pioneer spirit and freedom, the right to own a gun was part and parcel of that. I was living in Clare in South Australia at the time of the Port Arthur mass shooting. [In 1996, in Port Arthur, Australia, 35 people were killed and another 23 were injured by a lone gunman who used two semi-automatic weapons to unleash a reign of terror on the small city] I saw how Australians reacted to this. Port Arthur is part of South Australia. Australia has states, with state parliament’s and a central federal government, much like the US. A 28-year-old, who was described as having “significant intellectual disabilities,” was eventually caught and convicted of the crime. In the aftermath of this mass killing, the Australian government took bold and immediate steps to put in place gun control regulations. since then their gun regulations have got even tighter. Their gun deaths are now on a par with most European countries.