RE: Reporter/camera man murdered.
August 27, 2015 at 5:19 am
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2015 at 5:33 am by Napoléon.)
(August 26, 2015 at 11:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You can't separate the two, Nestor.
This is the crux of the issue for me. Lots of people are determined to divert attention away from guns and ignore them, acting like the problem is something else entirely.
No other civilised/first world country has such easy access to murder tools as what America does. And yet people talk like they have mental health issues to sort out that are different to what other countries also have? When what is actually different and what is actually the problem gets avoided, time and time again.
The problem is not mental health. Mental health issues affect every country on Earth. What is different with the US is the relatively easy access that people have to firearms. Yes you can murder other people with a car, or a knife, or your bare hands. But anyone who uses such a lame ass argument is avoiding the actual problem. You don't have mass shootings with knives. You can't use a gun to take you to work every morning either.
In the case of this particular story, he may well have still tried to kill these people due to his mental health issues. But what is so hard for people to get about the fact that his actions were made so much easier because of the prevalence of guns in the US.
A similar story in the UK is far more rare (hell, it doesn't happen at all) for instance because we don't have a stupid gun culture that dictates to us that we have a right to bear arms.
