[split] What is next for the United States? [GUNS]

[Brian37]

Missing  the fact mass shooters almost never  pick targets on risk of opposition , And pick them because they some significance to the killer .

We can focus on mass shooters and we should, but the bulk of firearm fatalities are suicides, second would  be domestic violence, 3rd would be accidental, mostly being children getting access to their parents gun. All types of firearm injury and deaths are important. 

This is why motive really irritates me. That is only important short term in each case to the investigators. Long term access is the issue regardless.

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"The founding fathers said..."

"The constitution says..."

Pretty sure the founding fathers had no concept of hand held weapons that can fire hundreds if rounds a minute.  They were, after all, from a time with single shot muskets.

The constitution says, I believe, "A well regulated militia", and was written at a time when America didn't have a standing army.  And a well regulated militua hardly describes many of the inbred yahoos who have massive personal armouries.

And I read somewhere that one of the founding fathers stated that the constitution should be reviewed and updated regularly?  Anyone have any information on that?

Thomas Jefferson, and every twenty years, so the next generation has a voice in the government.

^^^^^^^ Yep, this is what both conservative and liberal law students learn, but what most laypeople don't learn in civics classes.

That is why Amendments can be added or removed. The founders knew times would change.

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I can walk in downtown Brisbane, without even worrying about getting robbed without a firearm. Same in Tokyo. And despite what one may think, they don't ban firearms in either country, they just do a far better job keeping them out of the wrong hands.

I have never needed a gun walking down a street in my life .

Neither have I, but then again, I don't hang out with anyone who boasts a firearm in public when they don't have a job that requires it.

And I don't own one myself. I figure if someone wants me dead bad enough, it is far more likely they'd ambush me before I could draw a firearm anyway.

A lot like a shark will sneak up on a seal at the surface and ambush them.