pulse shooting in orlando, FL

[Noblejanobii]

And yeah on the actual issue, it's pretty bad that a guy who was on the FBI watch list for a time was able to get a job as a security guard AND access to weapons. Like the least they could do is not allow people suspected of sympathising with terrorists access to a gun FOR HIS JOB! ~_~

Yeah I don't understand how that just slipped through the cracks. It really concerns me, but then again doesn't surprise me given out government.

You can blame what happened on terrorism, on intolerance for other sexualities, or ISIS or whatever. They are huge issues and they all contributed. But the whole world has those same problems. In the Western world, it's only in the US that mass shootings happen again and again and again. It's a gun control issue and as long as people want to fight for their right to have guns and blame the problem on everything else under the sun, it will just keep happening over and over. If the mass shooting of children didn't change the way the lawmakers view things, nothing will, especially not shooting up a gay nightclub.

To an outsider like me, the whole gun thing seems ridiculous. Seeing anyone with a gun in public (which means a police officer, here), makes me uneasy just because I don't like the idea that they can take my life in a split second if they decide to, from far away, for no reason or for any reason they want. I would never ever feel safe knowing that civilians could carry weapons around. You lock your doors at night because you don't trust your neighbour not to rob you. So why would you trust them with a weapon that can take your life in an instant without you even knowing they were there? Think of all the complete imbeciles you know. Think of all the jerks and horrible people. Are you glad they can own guns? I would gladly give up my gun if it meant no one else had one. I can't even begin to understand it, but I do understand it's a part of US culture that some people feel strongly about, and therefore not something likely to change. :(

And yes I realise black market etc., if people really want one they will get one etc., and that it all seems impossible to change how things are. But other countries have managed it. And countries with strict gun control have way less issues so it must work enough to be worthwhile, even if it only stops half the shootings. It won't happen though, because the pro-gun people pay politicians to prevent it.

I'll fight for the issue until my dying breath because if there's anything I've learned in my time of politics, it's that you can't just take away something from everybody in this country and expect it to solve all problems.

Oh I don't lock my doors because I don't trust my neighbors to rob me. I lock my doors because I don't trust Joshmo who I don't know who saw me in the grocery store twenty minutes to follow me home, break in and rape me. I trust my neighbors (except the ones currently next door but to be fair I'm pretty sure they're drug dealers and they're moving out soon so no worries with them), but it's the people that I don't know that I don't trust. And I want a gun to make sure that if Joshmo does decide to come to my house and rape me, then he will be sure to regret it and I will make sure he either doesn't get another chance to rape someone, or thinks twice before he does. That's the world I have grown up in, the world I face everyday when I wake up, and the world that I cannot escape no matter what solution is thrown at it.

Yeah, key words "other countries". You ever noticed how the USA is different than everyone else? That applies here too. You see, it's not part of our culture, it's part of our founding. It is part of the Bill of Rights on the Constitution, and to date, only one Amendment on the Constitution has ever been repealed. Fun fact, it was the one that outlawed alcohol. As a person who has studied the amendment process, I can assure you, the Founders made it very difficult to pass an Amendment, and the only way to override an Amendment is with another Amendment. And say someone just passes a law anyway because screw the Constitution, it's not important or anything, that's what our judicial system is for. And while I understand that PACs like the NRA are paying politicians to prevent an Amendment from ever being passed, let alone presented, you have to stop and take a step back, because it's not entirely the politicians' fault, so you can't really blame them. They're merely responding to the voters, after all, they are elected to represent us, and they'll do just about anything to continue to do so. Given resent events, I can guarantee you that the Congress coming out this November will most likely be a democratic majority. Why? Because democrats are all about getting those guns pulled, and the majority in Congress right now loves their guns. So lets say Hillary Clinton gets in office and we have a democratic majority in Congress. Well, Hillary's useless because she has no influence on this process as the President, so it bubbles down to Congress. So, hypothetically speaking, lets say that Congress somehow gets this repeal the second amendment Amendment passed through Congress, then it has to go through the states, and I'll bet my college funds and life's savings, it would not pass through the states. There's too many that love their guns to ever allow such an Amendment to get passed. On top of that, say this Amendment actually does get passed, do you know what happened during Prohibition. The exact opposite intended effect. More people drank rather than less, because it was cool and rebellious. Well guess what? We're almost to the 100 year anniversary of the roaring 20s, who's to say they don't outlaw guns and then we just get a repeat only worse. In addition, you ever noticed how people respond to the police here? We aren't exactly huge fans of them. In other countries, the police scare you or you respect them. Not here, we don't do either. So if this was even tried to be enforced, there would be riots out the hoo ha all over this country. If anything, this would lead to anarchy and the country as a whole would collapse because gun rights is one of the 10 basic beliefs that makes up our foundation, and do you know what happens to a house that loses part of its foundation? It collapses. In short, your solution won't work here because the USA doesn't fit in the same size band-aids as Australia, or many other countries for that matter, so trying to plaster another country's solution on us will not work.