Hillary Clinton calls for renewed assault weapons ban: they're a 'weapon of war' | US news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... ndo-attack



Jesus fcuking wept.

As an American told me last year, the whole gun ownership thing is an arms race between the population, who feel that they need to be armed, and the police who feel that they need more and better weaponry than anyone else. So the population want bigger more powerful weapons to equal what the police have. And so it escalates.

The problem is that the second amendment isn’t really about gun ownership. It’s about forming militias after Independence when there wasn’t a standing army (partly because there weren’t enough guns to go round). So if you joined a militia, you had the right to bear arms (“arms” being a wonderfully vague term that could mean anything that could be handy in a fight).

You know what's ridiculous. That since the Orlando shooting there have been 3 more mass shootings (according to the FBI definition of mass shooting).

It's like it's the norm over there. It's crazy.


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The Doctor of the local hospital that took the casualties Said “We are used to gun shot wounds as we get them most nights”

I wonder how many Gun shot wounds the average city A&E in this country gets

Average? None.

The US army used to send it's battlefield surgeons to A&E departments of hospitals in the rougher areas of Washington as training, because the rate of gunshot wound casualties incoming in there was higher than in any conflict theatre the troops were involved in. Not sure if it's still true but it was the practice at one point.

Jon

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36545432

Please let that be the start of something meaningful.

You know nothing will change.

agree - there will be some talk and then it will go quiet until the next one

If the Sandy Hook shooting wasn't enough to change gun laws in the US, then this incident won't do anything either.

US Senate rejects terror list gun sale restrictions
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36563337

YOU UTTER W@NKERS.

no suprise really

Sad but true.

House Democrats stage sit-in protest to demand vote on gun control | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... un-control

We are beyond guns now. We’re on to robot bombs.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36745862

William Gibson (Famous sci fi author) tweeted something after the 'we killed the shooter with a robot bomb' story came out. It's the first paragraph of 'Count Zero', a book he wrote in 1986..