Criminal Deeds

[kandrathe]

Seriously, how long ago was newton? And then to see tweets with images of guys posing happily with their new ar15 (or whatever it is calleed) they got for christmas......makes me really sick.

Well, seriously then.

2.5 million AR15's have been sold since 1986. How many are involved in mass shootings? One is too many, but still you see the point. The bigger issue I see is that mass shootings are getting more prevalent, while gun ownership getting less prevalent. From 1972 to 2008, the ATF has estimated that the number of gun owning households has dropped from 58% to 32%. At that time, they estimated that there are 294 million guns in the US (nearly one per person). But, incidents of "insane" mass shootings have increased.

It's not that more people have access to guns. It's that the "wrong" people have access to guns. Normal people, like you and I, don't feel compelled to kill people -- even the ones with which we are angry. If you want to stop murder, then you need to focus on the murderers.