Keawyeds
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The Chris Rock Method - Each bullet should cost $5000
US boy aged 9 kills sister with a gun over a console controller
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The Chris Rock Method - Each bullet should cost $5000
kossoff
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Erm, at the very least keep guns locked up away from children?
More extreme methods of removing guns from most households would be preferable for me but I'm not pushing that agenda.
Do you want video games to be banned? Likely any video games that the Sheriff was referring to would be a 15+ rating so it looks like the parents have failed twice.
PinzaC55
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These threads crop up with monotonous regularity as each shooting occurs. Most people over here agree that the solution is for Americans to give up their guns. Your solution is to keep guns out of the reach of children. The first solution is clearly never going to happen because it would be political suicide for any government which tried to implement it and your solution is what every responsible parent will already be doing. However, not all parents are responsible so some children will have access to guns and occasionally they will fire the guns.
To sum up , I think there is no solution.
Video games fault.. that bloody Mario has a lot to answer for
PinzaC55
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I'd say that was a matter for the American judiciary. I don't think it will happen, though you should try suggesting it since they may not have thought of it.
look out piano
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If people are going to own guns they should be locked in cabinets away from children, the stupid f***ing parents should be held responsible
. Poor kid man. I go around causing mass carnage with trucks, guns, knives, knuckledusters, rocket launchers, pipe b0mbs and grenades when I'm playing GTA5 - it hasn't turned me into a killer ffs
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sidneyeric
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Parents fault.
WHD
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If they are locked away, they won't be at hand for when the burglar breaks in.If people are going to own guns they should be locked in cabinets away from children, the stupid f***ing parents should be held responsible
I go around causing mass carnage with trucks, guns, knives, knuckledusters, rocket launchers, pipe b0mbs and grenades when I'm playing GTA5 - it hasn't turned me into a killer ffs
look out piano
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Ramshanker
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Tragic. They'll probably put the 9yo on Death Row, he'll eventually die of old age
Bizarre some of the state laws and regulations in the US. I've been listening to a podcast called 'The Butterfly Effect' by Jon Ronson. In one of the episodes I learnt that some kids as young as 9 have to register as sex offenders. One young lad (autistic) sent a lass he liked a photo of his johnson, she told her mother and the kid was charged with distributing sexual photos of a minor (himself) - 25 years on the sex register, not allowed to be near parks, schools, recreation areas etc. Some towns purposely build a load of play parks around the town, to keep the predators at bay
Bizarre some of the state laws and regulations in the US. I've been listening to a podcast called 'The Butterfly Effect' by Jon Ronson. In one of the episodes I learnt that some kids as young as 9 have to register as sex offenders. One young lad (autistic) sent a lass he liked a photo of his johnson, she told her mother and the kid was charged with distributing sexual photos of a minor (himself) - 25 years on the sex register, not allowed to be near parks, schools, recreation areas etc. Some towns purposely build a load of play parks around the town, to keep the predators at bay
Gideon Gungeon
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tapwtft mate
citybythesea
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Video game + gun = People died
Video game - gun = People lived
Video game - gun = People lived
@geordiedean just bought himself a grenade
PinzaC55
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In Far Cry Primal lots of people die but there are no guns.
Motor City Cobra
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Guns don’t kill people, video games do.
Fact.
Fact.
To be fair to the US, this could have happened in the U.K. let’s not kid ourselves, guns are still available, he would just have got one from the black market
CatRyan
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You're wrong.
The issue is availability which is far far lower in the UK.
Guns are now the third leading cause of death in children in the US.
- In states with increased gun availability, death rates from gunshots for children were higher than in states with less availability.
- The vast majority of accidental firearm deaths among children are related to child access to firearms — either self-inflicted or at the hands of another child.
- Studies have shown that states with Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws laws have a lower rate of unintentional death than states without CAP laws.
- Domestic violence is more likely to turn deadly with a gun in the home. An abusive partner’s access to a firearm increases the risk of homicide eight-fold for women in physically abusive relationships.
- The U.S. General Accounting Office estimated that 31 percent of accidental deaths caused by firearms might be prevented with the addition of 2 devices: a child-proof safety lock and a loading indicator.
- Approximately one of three handguns guns is kept loaded and unlocked and most children know where their parents keep their guns.
- More than 75 percent of first and second graders know where their parents keep their firearms and 36 percent admitted handling the weapons, contradicting their parents’ reports.
- More than 80 percent of guns used by youth in suicide attempts were kept in the home of the victim, a relative, or a friend.
- Gun owners in a household (predominantly men) are more likely to report that their gun is stored unlocked and loaded, compared to the non-owners (predominantly women) in those households. This argues for better education of household members regarding safe storage in homes with children.
- These weapons are responsible for a minority of guns deaths in the US, but have become the weapon of choice for the assailant whose intent is chaos and casualties.
- In a November 2017 review of mass shootings in the U.S., 95 mass shootings have occurred since 1982, from which approximately 76 semi-automatic handguns and 85 assault weapons and weapons with high magazine capacity were recovered.
- In 2017 alone, 11 mass shootings in the US caused 117 fatalities and 587 injuries occuring in concert, religious, workplace, airport, and shopping venues and in community.
- At Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. in 2012, Adam Lanza reportedly fired more than 150 shots in less than five minutes from his assault-style rifle with a high capacity magazine.
- On June 12, 2016 at Pulse Nightclub, a single shooter killed 49 people and injured 53. It was the worst mass shooting in US History until the mass shooting in Las Vegas in October 2017 took 58 lives and leaving 546 injurred.
- States that restrict assault weapons also have the lowest per capita homicide rates. However, because guns are easily trafficked in interstate and international commerce, federal rules are needed.
- Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health demonstrated that from 1982 to 2011, mass shootings occurred every 200 days on average. Since late 2011, they found, mass shootings have occurred at triple that rate—every 64 days on average.
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