Sure, the USA could use more gun restrictions and background checking. That being said I noted the complete absence of this topic being brought up every time, like in gun restricting France, a Muslim terrorist gets a hold of guns and goes on or attempts (as in last week) a shooting spree. Why is that? Because Europeans seem to get their jollies looking down their long snouts at my American cousins while keeping quiet on the fact guns can be bought illegally in every single UK city.
Are illegal guns available, with some difficulty, in various places in Europe? Yes. Are guns - including large-calibre, large magazine, automatic rifles, for instance - freely available, legally, and permissible in public places by idiots with criminal records in the US? Yes. Do you see why there's a difference in reporting there? Would you rather look at the resulting statistics on gun-crime and gunshot deaths per capita instead?
I also note that there has been no mention of the fact that this latest nut job was using the fact that he was gay and black and crying discrimination as the excuse to do what he has done. He's dead and now awaits final judgement.
We've not seen anything to determine whether his claims of discrimination are true, yet - it's entirely possible, especially in the US, that he was discriminated against because of his race and sexuality: neither of those justifies gunning people down in the street, nor justifies a government policy which allows people to purchase firearms unchecked.
When you stop your killers getting their guns then maybe I'll respect this typical knee jerk UK reaction against America.
We do stop potential killers getting guns. That's why our deaths per 100,000 from guns stands at 0.26 against the US rate of 10.64 - that suggests, all things being equal, we stop around 97% of our killers.
(source: wikipedia list of countries by firearm related death rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate)
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