I will have to disagree with you on that. Weapons are not much harder to get today than 40 years ago. Mass killings have been the norm since the 80’s in the US. The biggest difference today is the type of weapons and their capabilities available to the public.

Even if they could ban guns or if they make it very hard to get one legally there are so many guns in the USA a determined shooter can easily get one. I think this sort of thing is going to carry on and become a regular thing. I see no solution ?

jaynewcastle wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 12:47 pm Sadly mass school shootings are part of normal day life in America, and something obviously many Americans are quite happy to accept, & they resist attempts to change laws to try & stop this annual mass slaughter of young kids

Most people in the rest of the world find it hard to believe that they allow this to continue, year after year

I very much doubt they are “happy” to accept mass shootings (school or otherwise)
I believe the issue is way more complex in the USA, than it was in the UK for example, where numbers of firearms per capita were minuscule (even prior to the hand gun and semi automatic rifle ban implemented in the 1990’s) compared to the USA, a nation literally ‘saturated’ with guns, (legally and illegally held) where do you begin removing them from private ownership?
Those holding them legally and responsibly (the vast majority) will be/are very resistant to being disarmed knowing the numbers of armed criminals in America.

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 1:13 pm

Kenr wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 12:51 pm Mass killings have been the norm since the 80’s in the US.

I will respectfully disagree. There has definitely been an increase in recent years.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/811 ... in-the-us/

Specifically:


(Please note the exact definition of mass shooting varies from source to source.)

That’s why I used the term mass killings.

xandreu wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 1:31 pm

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 1:00 pm Even if they could ban guns or if they make it very hard to get one legally there are so many guns in the USA a determined shooter can easily get one. I think this sort of thing is going to carry on and become a regular thing. I see no solution ?

Wasn't Cambodia awash with guns back in the wild-east days? I'm not saying they don't exist anymore here, or course they do, but no-where near on the scale they were when Cambodia was pretty much a lawless wasteland of criminals, drugs, murders etc...

It may take time, but it wouldn't be impossible to rid America of the majority of its privately owned guns, so long as the will to do it was there.

The problem is, it isn't.

That will never happen, because the will isn’t there to even make it difficult for the individuals who shouldn’t be allowed to have one. Unfortunately there so many loopholes in many states that allows anyone the ability to purchase/obtain a gun without any checks and balances.