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  Monto Eel May 19, 2018 at 2:47pm

  It’s extremely sad for those families who have lost loved ones in these diabolical mass shootings. Something needs to be done in the USA and sooner than later. It appears that common sense is a lost ingredient amongst the majority.
• Adam76 May 19, 2018 at 2:50pm

  Yer mate it happens over and over again travelled a few times over there and a lot of the locals don’t see it as a problem I think they are used to it unless it happens to them
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    Shawn peters May 19, 2018 at 6:17pm

    Hey David you are a fool, trump has to fix this as decades of incompetence
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  SEQld Eel (formely NZ Eel) May 19, 2018 at 3:30pm

  I have many American friends and it’s hard for us to understand but fir them guns is part of their constitution and their freedom as citizens. They still believe that if they gave up their guns then the Government could overpower them. It runs very deep and it is hard to understand. One of my friends is a committed Christian and yet carries a handgun with him wherever he goes. They don’t think having less guns will change anything cause the bad guys will still have guns. Crazy thinking and hard for us to get but it’s the way they think.
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  michael picklum May 19, 2018 at 4:37pm

  Adam u need to understand the American physic which has evolved through its history to understand the gun culture that exists there.

  The Americans fought for their independence from England, we didn't. For better or worse, the Americans fought their indigenous Indians to settle the country. They fought a painful & costly Civil War initially to protect their State Rights, the Abolitionist Cause gained priority during the course of the conflict. Their history is littered with internal conflict & the right to bear arms is embedded in their constitution to guarantee citizen's rights to protect themselves.

  Essentially we don't understand or condone their gun culture because we haven't experienced their historic circumstances.
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    Michael Ericson > michael picklum May 19, 2018 at 6:05pm

    Those things happened hundreds of years ago. They may play a part I’m not dismissing them entirely. I think the bigger issue is that many Americans simply feel it’s too late, there are too many guns in the country and the only ones who will end up giving up their guns are those that wouldn’t commit gun crime. It’s a wrong way of thinking in my opinion but pretty much every American I’ve spoken to explains it that way.
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      The Ape > Michael Ericson May 19, 2018 at 7:05pm

      It's as if they've passed the point of no return and can't reel it in now. So, the only thing to do is to continue to arm up and beef up security. 

      Public schools already have armed campus police and security but soon just going to school will require getting through airport security. 

      And they'll look at that and praise themselves for making schools safe. And no one will step back and say what's wrong with this picture? 

      It's a non-solution but guaranteed that's the route they'll take. 
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      michael picklum > Michael Ericson May 19, 2018 at 8:08pm

      Hi Mike, remember that the American Constitution was enacted in 1789 and the second amendment encompassing the right to bear arms closely followed in 1791.

      What people r basically criticising r rights that have been enshrined since 1791.
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    Parrafanalia > michael picklum May 19, 2018 at 7:08pm

    Yes that's handy to know but over 1.2 million Americans have died in America from gun wounds since John Lennon,s death in 1980 and 25,000 people die every year from their gun culture so that's time to change that culture don't you think.
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      michael picklum > Parrafanalia May 19, 2018 at 7:31pm

      As I inferred, its an American problem & what I or any other non American person thinks is irrelevant.

      Being an American problem it can only be resolved by Americans. America is a democracy so when American public pressure reaches a point that compels American politicians to act then it will change.