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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]4 shot at 14th and Saratoga NE.  :roll:

Curious how as soon as gun carry permits were forced to be issued in DC we started having mass shootings every other day. Imagine that! Who woulda thunk???? Giving people permits to carry guns created more ……. shootings!

Mind. Blown. [/quote]

Legal permit carriers weren't involved. The gun control lobby would benefit enormously from a basic understanding of who is committing city crime, the weapons they're using, and where they get them. Seriously, we'll never get real gun control passed as long as people like you keep talking. Stop it. [/quote]

This is not a problem with "understanding".

This is a problem of ideology and not abandoning it when human nature and character actually shows it doesn't work.

DC displays heavy gun control. It's almost impossible to get a gun legally. They make sure of that.

Yet, this continues.[/quote]

DC isn’t an island. All of the states with crappy gun control laws contribute to the gun violence. [/quote]

This is nonsense. The things you want laws against (straw purchases, interstate sales, criminal misuse of firearms) are already unlawful.  There is an unlimited supply of firearms waiting all over the world for it to be smuggled instead of or with drugs and other contraband. And “gun violence” is a political buzzword. Guns are inanimate. They do nothing. The most powerful firearm in the world, fully loaded, will harm no one without criminal misuse. The problem is criminal psychopaths and the quislings in government who continue to blame decent people and restrict their rights instead of holding criminals accountable. [/quote]

Then why do we have souch more gun violence than other countries with much stricter gun control?

I tend to agree that the problem is ALSO cultural, but think one reason our culture is so violent is the glorification of guns. These things go hand in hand.

All cultures have people who are impulsive, mentally unstable, and violent. But in our culture, those people have a lot of access to guns (legal and illegal, once you have lots of guns in the population, there will inevitably be a thriving illegal gun trade) and this we have lots of gun deaths. Other countries deal with violence, but less of it and it's less deadly because the weapons people have access to are less deadly.[/quote]

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