You can commit murder with your bare hands. Many fistfights have turned into murder cases.
I know, but what's the point? He's going to do 25 to life anyway. It just seems like a dumb charge.
And this is why I would never live in the US.
Too many retards and access to guns way too easy.
This same incident in Canada would have ended in a fist fight and the end of a friendship.
Everyone lives to play again.
Homicide due to gun violence is some of the lowest in the world. Private citizens can't own guns in Mexico but they have one of the highest murder rates due to gun violence in the world.
Look at the Boston bombing, you don't need a firearm to commit acts of terror and mass murder.
I get it that to people who don't understand guns look at them and think they're scary and in the wrong hands they can be. It's easy to point to this object and blame it but if you don't address the root cause of the problem then taking away guns won't do anything. Using basic cleaning products in your house you can make bombs(boston bombing) or chemical weapons. Other countries like to point at the US and scream guns while ignore stabbings and acid attacks.
Yeah, we have a higher rate of gun deaths than England but our crime rate is far lower.
Truth has been spoken. Up until the mid-1980's, Americans had far easier access to firearms than they do today and a higher percentage of the population owned firearms. Yet mass shootings were practically unheard of. Prior to the 1970's *all* gun crimes were relatively rare as well. Could it be that people did a better job raising their kids then, or perhaps it was the lack of access to cheap mind-melting drugs? Perhaps it was the fact that the Great Society led to a burgeoning welfare state where many children never knew what it was to have pride in an honest day's work. In any case, nobody was particularly afraid of a firearm unless it was in the hand of someone wearing a mask. Some high schools had target shooting as a competitive sport and boys kept their rifles in their lockers, and in many rural areas it was common for kids to bring a gun on the first day of hunting season. They could head for the woods as soon as class let out. Guns were never the root problem in America where gun violence was concerned. There were two exceptions in US history where gun violence escalated dramatically, however. During the Old West period occurrences of gun violence were comparable to what they are today, but only in frontier areas that attracted the get-rich-quick types and those running from authorities. The other abnormality was the Prohibition era where gangsters tore up the big cities in their wars over turf and control of the smuggling industry - again, it was all about getting rich fast by any means possible . In neither case were average citizens the ones using firearms to commit acts of terror and murder. Its always the criminal minded or unhinged who commit atrocities outside of a war zone. The statistics are pretty clear: a civilized society that expects its citizens to maintain a higher standard of behavior and which doesn't allow the growth of a huge underclass will rarely have a gun problem. The policies of America's corporate-government "leaders" over the past 50 years have achieved exactly the opposite effect because, like the train robbers and mafioso, their all about money and power. The worst of them pick and choose which demographic groups to hold accountable for their actions, based on cold calculations about potential votes and influence. Until this changes the situation will only get worse. Astoundingly, the "blame guns" crowd fails to comprehend one basic fact: if gun laws were the solution then we'd already have eradicated gun crime. Bear in mind these are usually the same people who say that drug laws won't stop illegal drugs so they actually DO understand this type of reasoning! They simply choose to apply it selectively in order to prop up their delusions. This kind of fantasy thinking solves NOTHING. You can't un-invent the firearm, either. A well maintained gun will last for generations. If all US gun makers closed up shop tomorrow we'd still have plenty of guns around for a couple centuries. And, since its obvious we can't stop illegal drug imports, what do you think the NEW hot item would be coming across the border? Guns, of course..their made all over the world, including South America. Curtailing the ammo supply might be somewhat effective but that would create an even bigger smuggling industry than if you outlawed guns entirely. Plus you can reload ammo at home with a pretty modest set of gear, which would allow for a *domestic* underground industry that would be virtually impossible to police. Ban gunpowder, you say? Typically easier to make than meth, and once again the lure of easy money would insure a massive illegal supply.
If we really want to stop the violence, what's required is consistency of reason. If we really believe that Jihadist hatred on the Internet can radicalize people then music and other entertainment that glorifies the worst kinds of human behavior can have a similar effect. If we believe that being bullied damages self-esteem then constant brainwashing by educators is damaging to critical thinking ability. Until all of us stop cherry-picking our positions based on rigid ideology, nothing will get better. Our politicians aren't going to save us..we have to save ourselves. That starts with setting aside generations of indoctrination and thinking clearly.
