The best article on US shootings and gun control comes to us from New Zealand.

+1000

yup, that guy pretty much pinned us.

Provides zero real insight. What level of gun regulation would have kept Paddock from carrying out this act? Probably tougher than anything on the books in NZ.

Even heavily regulated countries have these types of events. See: Norway 2011. There is something in modern Western society that leads to this. Like relegating men to chronic powerlessness, combined with genetics + medications.

Gryptic wrote:

Even heavily regulated countries have these types of events. See: Norway 2011.

Even heavily regulated countries have these type of events, one every few decades or once in their history. Not every few weeks.

Best quote from the article.

"Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly, for instance, called the killings "the price of freedom", obviously one he was happy to pay with other people's lives."

I cannot stand Bill O'Reilly. I also cannot stand DFF who will be ranting on this thread any minute now.

Author sounds like he spends too much time on letsrun.

The author nailed it. Why can't America transform into a small island, have a completely homogeneous population, and ban any inanimate object that may hurt somebody? They are just too stupid and fat to figure out that's the answer.

Haha. EXACTLY.

Yeah....remind me of the mass shooting a few weeks before Las Vegas? Maybe even a few months? Maybe a year?In a country with 323 million people, 68% white, not 4.6 million, 97% white.Your train gets off at Retardation Station.

kanyu filmi wrote:

Gryptic wrote:

Even heavily regulated countries have these types of events. See: Norway 2011.

Even heavily regulated countries have these type of events, one every few decades or once in their history. Not every few weeks.

26.3 wrote:

The author nailed it. Why can't America transform into a small island, have a completely homogeneous population, and ban any inanimate object that may hurt somebody? They are just too stupid and fat to figure out that's the answer.

lol

dddde wrote:

The rest of the world seems to understand our problems better than us and our own politicians.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11929708

New Zealand is a nice enough place, but it's barely a country. Don't they still have a queen?

neengrun wrote:

Best quote from the article.

"Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly, for instance, called the killings "the price of freedom", obviously one he was happy to pay with other people's lives."

I cannot stand Bill O'Reilly. I also cannot stand DFF who will be ranting on this thread any minute now.

Look O'Reilly slammed the Herald (probably the same reporter) last year on the factor. By most accounts from Kiwis who read it, the Herald is extremely left wing. Still though, mass shootings need to be addressed.

Gryptic wrote:[/

In a country with 323 million people, 68% white, not 4.6 million, 97% white.

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So why do Americans commit mass shootings? Well, because we have so many non- white people.

That's one thing the author forgot to mention: After every mass shooting by a white male, the white people will blame it on the US not being completely white.

Now that's a good article...sums up the gun addicted divided states of America.