Another gun discussion part deux.

[Drich]

no one is blindly defending the industry.
we are not over inflating the industry or the problem but assigning guilt/problem to the individuals who commit those crimes.

This may be a valid excuse when such things are rare as Hell, but when they're as common as they are (as in America), just taking the individual route where we treat each individual case like a whack-a-mole seems like a fruitless endeavour, at least, assuming you actually want to solve the problems.

Before you balk at my referring to gun deaths as common, just look at this table of countries by firearms death rate. While America's only #1 in the "number of guns per capita" and "suicides" tabs, we're still pretty high on total gun deaths and homicides. And just play around with the sortings: of all the countries who outrank America in total gun deaths and gun homicides, do you think you'd feel safe going around any of them? Or that Trump wouldn't call them shithole countries?

they are not in fact as common as the fake news portrays, but they do happen and they happen because again sheer ignorance and insensitivity to guns and gun violence. if every timmy had to shoot his old yeller when the dog got mortally sick or wounded then there would be a far greater respect for guns and their usage. this is what happens when you shield your children from everything, they grow up not respecting anything even life itself.