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> So guns are what caused this tragedy? The mere existing of them in the US causes people to lose their minds and go on rampages? When people in other countrie

> So guns are what caused this tragedy? The mere existing of them in the US causes people to lose their minds and go on rampages? When people in other countries lose their minds they cannot go on rampages as easily because of filters on gun ownership. In fact before people go on rampages they often go to the US first to get guns so their rampages can be more 'effective' where they actually do live: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks

tablespoon 4y ago
> When people in other countries lose their minds they cannot go on rampages as easily because of filters on gun ownership. They totally can, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China: > On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng (郑民生)[7] 41, murdered eight children with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping,[8] Fujian province... > An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010... > On 4 August 2010, 26-year-old Fang Jiantang (方建堂) slashed more than 20 children and staff with a 60 cm knife, killing three children and a teacher at a kindergarten in Zibo, Shandong province.... > The death toll has risen to nine in Friday's stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China allegedly carried out by a former pupil seeking revenge for having been bullied.... etc.
- xvector 4y ago
  Notice how these don't even come close to the weekly school shootings in the US.
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China: > Reaction and response > ...The state media has also been keeping news of these attacks quiet by deleting forum entries on the internet and releasing few facts on the incident for fear of copycat crimes and mass panic... > Following the Chenpeng school attack, the Chinese government began posting security guards in schools throughout the country. It was planned that all schools have a security guard by 2013.
mahastore 4y ago
- buscoquadnary 4y ago
  Automatic firearms are basically illegal for personal ownership in the US.
artificialLimbs 4y ago
Yes, it's the government that invariably ends up going on rampages.

tablespoon 4y ago

> When people in other countries lose their minds they cannot go on rampages as easily because of filters on gun ownership. They totally can, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China: > On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng (郑民生)[7] 41, murdered eight children with a knife in an elementary school in Nanping,[8] Fujian province... > An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010... > On 4 August 2010, 26-year-old Fang Jiantang (方建堂) slashed more than 20 children and staff with a 60 cm knife, killing three children and a teacher at a kindergarten in Zibo, Shandong province.... > The death toll has risen to nine in Friday's stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China allegedly carried out by a former pupil seeking revenge for having been bullied.... etc.

xvector 4y ago
Notice how these don't even come close to the weekly school shootings in the US.
- tablespoon 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China: > Reaction and response > ...The state media has also been keeping news of these attacks quiet by deleting forum entries on the internet and releasing few facts on the incident for fear of copycat crimes and mass panic... > Following the Chenpeng school attack, the Chinese government began posting security guards in schools throughout the country. It was planned that all schools have a security guard by 2013.

mahastore 4y ago

buscoquadnary 4y ago
Automatic firearms are basically illegal for personal ownership in the US.

artificialLimbs 4y ago

Yes, it's the government that invariably ends up going on rampages.