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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-12-28 07:00 pm

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(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
But the problem comes when you think gun laws do anything. The guns in the Connecticut shooting were stolen from a lawful owner, the shooter's mother. The guns in the Winnenden (Germany) shooting were also stolen from a lawful owner.

The US's gun culture cannot be considered too important a factor as school shootings have occurred in countries such as Canada, Germany, Finland, Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Hungary, France, New Zealand, Israel, Australia, Brazil, and Argentina. The most common theme isn't a shared gun culture but mental illness.

There is literally no point in talking about changing gun laws in light of the Connecticut tragedy because the guns were not lawfully acquired. Shockingly, the guns are a means to an end, not a catalyst. Remove guns and we get stabbing sprees like the attack in Chenpeng (China) the same day as the Connecticut shooting or the Sasebo slashing (Japan). The effects are less deadly, there's no denying that, but it's like declawing a cat to keep it from scratching: you're solving the symptoms of the problem, not the problem itself, which, in this case, is usually mental illness.

(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Let me correct you on that: the school shooting that occurred in France (I'm assuming you're talking about the school shooting in Toulouse) was the result of religious fanaticism. Not a mental illness.

And there's a line between having guns and being legally able to buy assault rifles. The shooter in Connecticut had an AR-15 type rifle that fired automatic bullets. The kind of bullets that shred a body. And the kind of rifle that is just a civilian version of a military issue rifle. That gun was lawfully acquired by the shooter's mother and made easily available to her son.

What use could any civilian find in an assault rifle? Yes, treating mental illness is a HUGE point. But not the only one.