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oh god no no no not another one DX It hurts my heart. </3

We need gun reform.

This one was brought to a quick end by a local resident who also had a gun and drove him off.

So effing sick of this happening all the time and nothing is ever done.

RIP innocent victims. Again.

WTF is wrong with US of A????

I'm really getting sick of this :/

Very sad and evil. But again, gun reform isn't the answer, as it was already illegal for him to own a firearm due to dishonorable discharge from the Air Force.

The problem is not guns. They are only tools, to be used or misused. The problem is sick people who do these things for varying reasons. Don't forget that trucks and explosives have also been used in other incidents.

My whole issue is that trump wants to say this was a mental health issue yet the republicans want to let mentally ill people be able to purchase guns? sideways much? anything to fill the NRA pocket with more money that they don't need.

Guns and trucks is hardly a fair comparison to make. How many things are transported via gun other than bullets? Obviously trucks have uses far beyond killing and injuring, guns not so much.

Trucks have one basic use: transportation. Guns have one basic use: shooting. They are both tools for a specific purpose. They can be used properly and do good (ambulances, police cars, hunting for food, self-defense) or they can be used for evil (mass murder). Don't blame a tool for how people use them.

But are they used for good purposes? You can't tell me the majority of gun ownership is for hunting for food.

Gun handling and ownership needs some serious thought. It shouldn't be normal to have a massacre a month. Nor should it be normal for children to gain access to loaded weapons and be able to shoot others. But it happens. All the time. Guns are treated far too casually.

In saying that, if these mass shootings haven't convinced the nation yet, nothing will. As a country you're willing to pay the price of people's lives to uphold your right to own a gun.

Whenever a shooting like this happens, I'm like 'what the hell is wrong with the US and its legislation?'

No, a great deal of it is for self-defense. I have two instances in my own family where a woman alone at home drove out a burglar just by displaying a gun. No shots were fired, the threat was enough to do the job.

Is stopping two burglaries over the course of who knows how long worth the lives of the over 1000 a year children who die of gunshot wounds?

Or would you prefer nothing is done and the killings keep on rolling in? This is a very uniquely America problem.

It's not just two. It happens every single day, it just doesn't make the news. I must ask, how many of those children are the result of gang activity? If we could wipe out gangs, violence would go way down. And sure, I'd like to see things done. One good solution is to start protecting the soft targets.

The thing is, in America, guns are so prevalent they're pretty much here to stay. A ban on guns would simply drive the industry underground, which means the government now has NO control over who gets their hands on one. Stricter gun control helps, but no amount of gun control is going to keep people 100% safe from gun violence.

Personally, I think the best approach to the issues mentioned is to mandate gun safety classes in schools (to reduce the chances of accidental shootings) and to maybe look into getting armed (and trained!) security for vulnerable targets like schools and malls (to minimize the casualties from mass shootings). I also think crimes carried out with even the threat of guns should automatically carry harsher penalties, to discourage using guns for illegal purposes.

I know none of these ideas are foolproof, but there is no 100% foolproof way to protect people from gun violence in America.

This hurts my heart.