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Originally Posted by Itse
I believe if you just look at the number of guns and access to them, numbers alone don't do much to explain the situation. Finland has tons of guns and they're not really that hard to get either, and it took a long while before we got our first school shooting.
I support strict gun control both here and in the US, but if you're looking for reasons for these shootings, I would look elsewhere than just the number of guns and access to them.
I once saw an argument made that the US has almost the same relationship to guns as the japanese have to swords. Which I thought was interesting. Maybe there's something to that.
Also, the US media is possibly the largest anywhere, and very violence-oriented. Mass murderers seem to get a ton of personal attention. Maybe that's a problem. But how different is this from some other countries? I have no idea.
What I do know, that just going for gun control will propably not do much. (Although, it might change people's attitudes towards guns...) Personally, I'd call it a good place to start anyway. Although there's the huge problem that there are already so many guns around...
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seems like the US should try to temper guns and the access to them.
things like extended clips, fragmentation bullets, assault rifles... all those things seem like you would want to restrict them to some degree.
The genie is out of the bottle, sort to speak, but the notion that people need guns to protect themselves from, say, gang violence is silly.