DzM wrote:And now some total dickhead kills more than 50 people, and injures at least 400 more, in Las Vegas. These were people enjoying an evening at an outdoor concert. What is wrong with people that makes them do this kind of thing to their fellow human beings?
Stay safe, everyone.
My thoughts go out to the victims, friends and families that have been killed or injured in Las Vegas, but let’s be honest, this is ridiculous, isn’t it? The gun laws in the US are just crazy.
I don’t know the details of how they differ in each state, or if they even do, but 32,000 people are killed by guns in America EVERY YEAR, which on average is about 85 people a DAY and includes over 500 children shot by firearms that have been negligently left around by their parents.
In the UK, where we have gun control, we have only 32 gun related deaths a year, mainly due to gangsters getting hold of them illegally and shooting each other, and occasionally an incident victim, like eleven-year-old Rhys Jones in 2007, getting caught in the crossfire.
You can’t argue that gun control doesn’t help keep the figures as low as they are, and surely, it’s time that the US government started to take action and introduce them too, but sadly they won’t. Obama didn’t do it, even though he made promises to, and neither will Trump.
They say that this isn’t the right time to talk about gun control, but it IS the right time to talk about gun control because if it doesn’t get discussed now, then it never will be and there will be another mass shooting and more people will get killed.
As for the NRA, they go on and on about the American citizen’s right to carry guns every time this happens and come up with no solutions to the problem, and the American people go out and buy themselves more guns as if that is going to save them from some lunatic who has gone crazy with a firearm.
Its’s obvious to me that the mass shooting in Las Vegas over the weekend was a terrorist attack, but according to the ‘authorities’, it was not, and there can be only one reason for me thinking that they think this, and that is because the shooter was white.
I bet if he’d been a Muslim though, then it would have been classed as one, and if the NRA was made up entirely of Muslims, and not ‘pure bred’ Americans, then they would be classed as a terrorist organisation and something would be done,
It’s about time that American’s woke up to what is happening in their country and began to realise that GUNS KILL PEOPLE.
Something needs to be done NOW to stop another massacre, but unfortunately, I sense that we are going to carry on debating it forever with the views of people like me sadly falling on deaf ears, and nothing will be done, and the whole thing will just go on and on.
