Firearms

[Aractus]

I find it rather ridiculous that some far-left, radical liberals find a ban on assult rifles to be nessassary to combat violence in the United States.

There's nothing "far left" about supporting a ban on semiautomatic weapons. Nothing at all.

The only reasons that I don't support such a move for the USA is because 1. I think it should be addressed at the State level not the Federal level and 2. I do not think it is fiscally responsible when mass shootings do not always - or even mostly - make use of said weapons.

Yet the reality of scenarios evidences the fact that further restrictions and prohibitions of people's access to arms doesn't do much to improve their behaviors.

That much is total nonsense. Absolutely total nonsense. Data from all around the world will show you that placing restrictions on the access to arms DOES do a lot to improve their behaviours. Especially when it comes to issues such as safety and security. The number of "accidental" hunting/sport shootings is ridiculously high in the USA because nobody is forced to attend safety lessons. When kids go to swimming class in the pool, their teacher/instructor has been trained with CPR and they have to keep their first aid training up to date to continue to teach children. There are a large number of people who believe parents should be forced to have up to date first aid training if they have children and they have a pool at home - the fact is this will reduce the number of deaths by drowning of children. There is absolutely no reason to think that having standards in place for the use of firearms as their is in many other areas (driving, swimming, etc) will not have a beneficial result.

In the year 2012, only around one-hundred fifty (with the shooters counted if killed) of a number over eleven-thousand gun deaths were the result of mass shootings.

So what? That tells you nothing about semiautomatic weapons at all because no mass shooting NEEDS one, they only need a firearm. Accidental shootings are one of things that you should be looking at.

Alongside that, leftist media corperations enjoy reporting events such as the Colorado Theater Shooting or the Sandy Hook Shooting for two main reasons-to gain revenue through advertising and to sway viewers to their agendas.

I'm calling bullshit on this. "Leftist media corporations enjoy reporting events ..." What is there to enjoy about it?

With those facts known, many gun-control advocates tend to draw western European nations as reasons by which legislators and other government bodies should have the right to trample upon whatever sections of the United States Constitution that its members feel are necessary to. Many of these people forget to mention that the average man in countries such as England, Denmark, and Geramny tend to have a higher income and educational level than most Americans do, and also have universal healhcare systems in which those who suffer from mental illnesses can be treated more effecivly in the United States.

And you have something that shows me those are significant factors in considering the application of tighter firearm controls?