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Originally Posted by Thor
I'm the liberal but I have been for a long time a gun guy, and of course a responsible one.
The US is a unique issue, and I do not for one second think that massive restrictions to guns is going to solve this issue, the violence you are seeing in these kinds of shootings is a symptom of the problem, what that problem is I don't know.
In Iceland and Canada I know tons of gun owners, and almost zero gun violence in comparison to the states. Its something systemic with the US, maybe its the society, maybe its a complex combination of many things, culture of fame at all costs, horrible health care system that lets down mentally ill people, maybe its the fear culture of the media, maybe its the desperation people feel who struggle and fall to the standards of a country built on wealth and material things... Who knows, maybe all of these are dead wrong..
But what I do know, is that you could tomorrow ban all weapons in the US and these issues would still happen.
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Well part of the disparity is probably due to population disparity. More chance with 100+ million people that somebody does something crazy than with 35 million or w/e. We would assume the number violent incidents would be higher in countries with much higher populations.
I don't know if that accounts for all the disparity though.