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Default A thoughtful viewpoint from an Australian........ gun nuts won't be interested of course

On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:24:45 -0800 (PST), trader_4
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On Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 2:01:46 PM UTC-5, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 02:55:10 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 05:02:28 +0000, Bod wrote:

On 18/12/2019 20:44, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:13:52 -0500, Bob wrote:

On 12/18/19 10:23 AM, Bod wrote:
Any other country would regard 45 school shootings in one year to be
horrendous. Nearly one a day.
I can only recall the UK having just 2 in its history.

The US has the weakest gun laws in the developed world.

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Bod


It is as horrendous as your acid attacks.

There's your "yes but" bull**** defense again.
Yhe UK is not having weekly deadly attacks on multiple school children
in their schools - whether by gun, acid, knife or sarin gas doesn't
matter. It is a DISEASE in the USA - and sadly, GUNS, and in
particular automatic "assault" weapons which have NO legitimate use -
they are not hunting rifles - they are designed for one purpose, and
one purpose only - to kill people

Well put.
The "weekly attacks" are thugs in school being thugs. Some of our
schools are in combat zones. Kids in school and people outside those
schools carry guns and shoot each other. That is why you hear the
details of a shooting every year or two but they say we have one a
week. They don't want to get into the details of the others. It might
sound racist.

Not as "racist" as your vague accusatorial response. Part of the
"desease" is the teriible discrepancy between rich and poor in the USA
- and the almost institutional atempts to keep it that way. Not just
financially either.


Please cite for us these almost institutional attempts to keep the poor,
poor. Only thing I can think of is the welfare state, that makes it
more comfortable to not work and act irresponsibly. Funny how immigrants
like the Vietnamese that fled Vietnam and came here with nothing, in
just a few years were productive and moving on up. No institution
stopped them.


The "institution" was HHS and the Johnson "Great Society" programs
that made welfare pay better than working, as long as you didn't live
with your baby daddy.