G'Day,
Thats what happens when you keep guns in the house,there gun crazy over there,it's a bit of a change from killing the Indians and the blacks as they cant do that anymore (well legally anyway) so they go crazy in the schools instead.
The USA is a more harsh and uncaring place than Australia too - you either succeed or you crash and burn. Add guns into the mix and I'm surprised the homocide rate isn't even higher.
And yet George Bush still does not want to further enforce gun restrictions...
If anyone has seen Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine', there's a lot more significance to an event like this.
G'Day,
Yes I agree, I'd recommend everyone to watch that,especially the yanks unfortunately there to busy watching soapes
Cheers
Arthur
P.S.Not all of them of course,there are still some decent people living there
The USA is a more harsh and uncaring place than Australia too - you either succeed or you crash and burn. Add guns into the mix and I'm surprised the homocide rate isn't even higher.
G'Day,
Sad to say,but thanks to LITTLE Johnny Howard we're heading along the same road,the gap between the rich and poor in this country is getting wider by the year,It's obscene the salary that some people get,when is enough, enough and yet the banks etc want to make more profit to beat last years.I'd better stop otherwise I'll be getting my orange box out to stand on
Cheers
Arthur
Its a sad indictment of politics today that massacres as these will continue as long as the fear of lost votes outways the tears of the many who suffer from these unthinkable acts .
I don't have a problem with people owning firearms , but the almost anything
goes atmosphere of ownership and what you can buy http://www.impactguns.com/store/machineguns.html
needs to be dealt with .
The gun ownership question in the USA is more complex than it is here. Apart from fear of armed intruders breaking into a persons home, there seems to be a fear of the government acting against its own people. America has a much more violent history than Australia and any attempt to curtail gun ownership will have to be in small increments.
I must say it's very comforting to see the left wing sentiment expressed in this thread so far.
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I must say it's very comforting to see the left wing sentiment expressed in this thread so far.
Might have to clip some wings if posts get overly political...
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Yes it's a very sad and disturbing thing. Especially since I'm still in school knowing that it could indeed happen any day, is pretty frightening.
Most likely the guns used were bought by "gangsters" who bought them illegally off some underground market.
I wish libertarians went into power, it would take the market away from the gangsters and people selling drugs, weapons and allow full control by the government. Anything you do is legal, as long as it doesn't put anybody else in harm.
As long as they continue the "right to bear arms" under the constitution, things like this will go on.
Did you see Charlton Heston saying at a meeting of the NRA, "They can take my gun from my cold dead fingers"?
With attitudes like that, it will never end.
I have been a shooter in the past, but never thought about guns for anyone ever. Some people shouldn't drive cars because of road rage, but they can have a gun!
Crazy.
It saddens me to hear of such horror happening to our youth..no-one deserves this..the innocent ones in the final moment of their lives in total fear without escape..wittnesses to their deaths will forever hear their screams...those in power will argue the rights and wrongs and the why's and who's...and it doesn't matter if it's a gun..or a knife..explosives..or even a car...they can all be used to kill...and we humans are very good at that...
I think something like 70 lives were lost the other day due to Iraqi sectarian violence induced by US interference in Middle East politics . Some maniac using one of the 200 million privately owned guns in the USA , to kill 32 white middle class Americans has much more newsworthiness in the West.
If all firearms were banned and taken out of the hands of law abiding citizens who use them for legitimate and sporting use only criminals would still posess guns--I'll bet that the gangland murdererers and criminals never surrendered their firearms during Little Johnnys gun buy back scheme. If you want to live in a dream world then keep dreaming. 600+ people die on our roads each year yet no one suggests banning cars!
Ten times more people died in Iraq today yet made no news. Do we have our priorities right?
If all firearms were banned and taken out of the hands of law abiding citizens who use them for legitimate and sporting use only criminals would still posess guns--I'll bet that the gangland murdererers and criminals never surrendered their firearms during Little Johnnys gun buy back scheme. If you want to live in a dream world then keep dreaming. 600+ people die on our roads each year yet no one suggests banning cars!
Ten times more people died in Iraq today yet made no news. Do we have our priorities right?
accidents are a little different to murder dont you think? should we ban cancer?
