Amore wrote:Fence Sitter wrote:How many billions of dollars do we spend a year defending ourselves against external terrorism? A threat that kills how many Americans a year?10? maybe a 100?
And yet how many thousands of Americans die each year right in our own country from guns?
God, we are morons.
The obvious needs to be pointed out sometimes. Guns do not kill people, people kill people. People who are intent on getting a gun find ways despite the many existing gun laws of restrictions. Schools need security.
2 common factors among shooters are prescription mind-altering drug use & fatherlessness. The real problems go ignored while scapegoats of blaming guns is the focus.
13500 people were killed in the US in 2015 by guns. 26,000 were injured
and you believe that drugs and fatherlessness are the problem?
First of all every shooter who has ever lived has a father. Period. Perhaps you meant the lack of a father figure in their lives? Lets be clear here, there are a lot of factors involved in why people kill people with guns. The two you point out are some of those factors, but certainly not all of them. So, to phrase it like you do, let's point out that there are two obvious common factors involved in all these deaths and injuries.
Guns and people.
When talking about death and injury from a weapon, it is idiotic to say people kill people as if the gun isn't involved.
Why can't we approach this problem on both of those fronts? And given my point above seems to have been too complex for either you or Sub-moron, why can't we dedicate more resources to a problem that takes thousands of lives more than domestic terrorism?