AUSSIE SOLUTION: Gun control laws (Martin Bryant Port Arthur Massacre) was the catalyst of change for Australia.Many times Americans (and some Aussies for that matter) have said that they need the firearms to protect themselves.
Didn't protect 20 innocent children. They need to wake up to themselves.
This along with the change of gun laws. Something needs to happen, this is becoming far too common over the years..;. said:"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.
It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.
CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.
You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."
Fixed it for you.Americans love guns more than i love children
lets just ban the things that can only exists to spray x amount of bullets into a direction or to give someone the possibility to spray x amounts of bullets, and by x i mean plenty*facepalm* Criminals don't obey laws. If guns are illegal then only criminals will possess them, it would'nt stop this sort of thing at all. Dude in China just stabbed 22 kids in China do they ban knives now? Do you ban rocks when people eventually start using them?
It's times like this I wonder why teachers aren't packing heat. Could have saved alot of lives.