More gun trouble in the Land of the Free

[bob10]

Standoff in Dallas After 11 Officers Shot, 5 Killed After Protest - NBC News

[123rover50]

Its not gun trouble at all.
Its people trouble.

[sheerluck]

Its not gun trouble at all.
Its people trouble.

To be more accurate, it's people with guns trouble.

Those people would find it difficult to shoot people if they didn't have guns. And their answer is to buy more guns.

[123rover50]

So if a black truck driver with a beef against whites runs a semi through a cafe full of people and kills a bunch of them, its then called "truck trouble"?

Its like a chippie blaming his tools.
Where there is a will there is a way, but admittedly guns do make it easier.
Its the mindset of the people that has to change.

Keith

[Andrew86]

So if a black truck driver with a beef against whites runs a semi through a cafe full of people and kills a bunch of them, its then called "truck trouble"?

Its like a chippie blaming his tools.
Where there is a will there is a way, but admittedly guns do make it easier.
Its the mindset of the people that has to change.

Guns increase the severity of violent crime. That's just a fact.

There are crazy, angry people everywhere in the world. The difference in America is that they can get a gun very, very easily.

I really don't know what the solution is going to be over there. They're too far down the garden path for a reduction strategy to make any real difference and many citizens refuse to acknowledge that there's even a problem.

I guess I'm grateful that I can do my job and live my life in a country where I don't need to worry about sniper fire.

[sheerluck]

No, that's racially motivated murder Keith.

And to use your chippie blaming his tools analogy, if a chippie has decent power tools, he can build more houses, faster. If he uses hand tools only, he can still build houses, but it'll take him a lot longer.

Giving people access to high powered automatic assault rifles, where they can wander into a shopping centre, school, office or college with a few hundred rounds, and murder as many people as they can catch up to is just wrong on so many levels.
Don't like something your local police force have done? Sit on top of a building with your high powered sniper rifle, and pick a few off.

Removing access to those weapons won't stop people killing other people, there are too many mad, bad or sad folks in this world for that to just stop.

So I agree 100%, it is the mindset of the people that needs to change.

[Ean Austral]

Does anyone else find it strange that they want the right to carry weapons , it seems for protection against their own people.


The mentality that if joe blow has a gun , I am going to have a bigger gun seems totally against peace time logic.


You cant blame the police for being trigger happy, the thought of every person you pull over could possibly have a military style assault rifle would make anyone nervous.


I have no sympathy for them at all , its going to continue forever with that attitude. they don't seem slightly interested in changing things either


Cheers Ean

[Ausfree]

Makes you realise how lucky we are to live in Australia.

[rar110]

So if a black truck driver with a beef against whites runs a semi through a cafe full of people and kills a bunch of them, its then called "truck trouble"? Its like a chippie blaming his tools. Where there is a will there is a way, but admittedly guns do make it easier. Its the mindset of the people that has to change. Keith

Individuals seem much more able and willing to pull a trigger than harm or kill people in other ways.

[Pickles2]

"America, Land Of The Free"?.....It certainly is......it's the freeest place on earth, but yeah, I know, it's got a few problems, like we all have...... BIG fan of the U.S. here.
But I ain't no fan of the recent shootings. I've got nothing against firearms, in fact i love 'm,.....don't own one,...I could, but it ain't worth the drama, so I choose not to.
Anyone who "abuses" firearms, needs to be punished with the full force of the law.
"Full force of the law" ....something that is sadly lacking in Aussie today, and IMHO, which will eventually lead us to a place where we do not want to be,...I hope I will not be around then..
Punishment?...That U.S. Policeman needs to be subject to the FULL force of the law,...if it's murder, then he needs to cop the PROPER penalty.
YA THINK THIS IS CONFINED TO THE U.S.?...THINK AGAIN.
Pickles.