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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
That's true pretty much all around the world. It's in the US too many people believe firearms are the solution to every problem. Hate your mom? Go shoot a school full of little kids (Sandy Hook). Don't have a girl friend? Shoot up a college classroom (Roseberg, Oregon)
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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
So what is the real issue? Why can people in Canada and France deal with their emotional problems without getting a gun and taking out a school?
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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
Google nearly country in conjunction with "attacks" and you will find numerous examples of domestic terrorism. Just because you don't hear about it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. If you have the ability to read these things with an open mind, you would also note that many of these countries have strict gun control measures. Obviously their criminals don't follow the laws either.
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In its simplest terms, it boils down to this: In other countries that have very strict firearms laws and almost no civilian ownership, the governments would dearly like the citizenry to believe their onerous laws to be a "success". As such, they downplay gun violence in an effort to promote that image, and to make the people feel "safe". The government has already disarmed the people, and allowing the notion to take hold that bad things still happen, that criminals and crazies still get guns and hurt and kill people, might raise suspicions among their populace that things are not working as planned. With the relative scarcity of gun violence, it's pretty easy to let is pass unreported and unnoticed.
The U.S. is in a far different situation. While these tragic events are every bit as scarce here as in most other civilized countries, here we have politicians and liberal elites that very much want to publicize each and every event as broadly as possible. They want to deliver the message that private gun ownership is a bad thing, that we are all in danger as long as it continues to be allowed. Bad things will continue to happen as long as the peasants own firearms. They need these tragedies to be publicized as much as possible, to make people feel unsafe, so they can justify taking guns away from private citizens.
These are two far, far different sets of circumstances. In both cases, governments and mainstream liberal media report what benefits them the most. If they have already disarmed the populace, they will not report incidents of gun violence as broadly as they might otherwise. If they are still trying to disarm the populace, they will broadly publicize each and every incident until folks start to believe it is a common place occurrence, and something must be done.
Just look at guys like wdfifteen. He's obviously swallowed the whole speil - hook, line, and sinker. He hates guns, gun owners, and will never be able to look at either objectively, nor the motivations of our political and media elite.