It's Not Too Soon to Debate Gun Control

Par5 said:

It's all very well discussing protecting yourself against a vicious dog, but this thread is about gun control in America. If dogs were the only creatures being massacred by people who had guns I would be angry at such stupidity as I really like dogs, but it would be the lesser of two evils as it is people, not dogs, that people who have guns are killing and I like people more than I like dogs.
As has been already stated on this thread, after a mass shooting you have the usual outpourings of anger, prayers and empty rhetoric, which are then quickly put away ready to be brought out again after the next mass shooting, which experience has shown us means they won't be in storage for long.
I'm sorry to say that in America, as far as guns are concerned, the genie is out of the bottle. America is on a long-running lust affair with guns bordering on the pornographic, and it will take more than a bucket of cold water to dampen that ardour.
There just doesn't seem to be the political will to bring in effective legislation to help stop Americans killing thousands of other Americans each and every year and a failure to look and learn from gun control as practised in other countries where its citizens are not killing each other by the thousands.

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