Another shooting.. Community College Texas

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Please stop saying Barry, I can only ever think of Barry Scott from the Cillit Bang adverts when you say that and it just makes me laugh which makes it really hard to take your posts seriously.

Thank you for explaning it, we were genuinely struggling to understand what you meant (or your mother, but I digress).

The issue we have is, this is the internet. You're on the other side of the Atlantic to most people here, which means most people here will never meet you and subseqently only have the limited knowledge we have to go on.

Erego, Blade (ironically a slang term for a kinfe, any chance you have a large interest in them?) = Guns in the minds of many on this forum.

We don't necessarily assume that you fit stereotypes, and at n

From this limited knowledge, the natural and normal response is to formulate an opinion, and given that you clearly have very strong views on guns and American politics, and this tends to be your main topic of conversation in this medium, this is what we begin to associate with you.

Guns are ingrained in Americas culture. The only way to stop gun crime, is to have no guns. Yes, people will find other ways of committing crime. Taking guns away isn't going to stop violent murders. It will make it harder to commit murders, but just look at prohibition. Look at illegal, harmful drugs. Take something Americans love away from them, hell, take something away from any culture that they love, and the criminals and the ones willing to flaunt the law (often the most dangerous) will be the ones who profit.

Britain has some of the strictest gun controls in the world. It's incredibly hard to obtain a gun, and yet even in my county, there has been an incident recently of gun rampage (Derrick Bird). But that is just one.

America is never going to be able to effectively get rid of guns because you all love the *Removed* things too much. People express their love for a cold, hard, soulless, metal killing machine. It is ingrained in the fabric of America, and they're everywhere, and it's not even like they have to be locked down. The police carry guns as a matter of practice, and the whole thing is *Removed* stupid.

But it's never going to change, because another point to with human nature. In the same way that we form opinions, the vast majority of us do not like change.
A wise step to help gun control would be doing things like stop glamourising them, make them less available, hush up reports of gun crima little more, don't make them available in *Removed* supermarkets.
Asda, a huge British supermarket chain is owned by Wal-Mart. They're now required to cover up the cigarette stands to stop them being advertised and glamourised.

At the end of the day, politics are stupid, guns are stupid, killing is stupid. But they all still exist, they all still happen, and as long as there is still a person who believes in any of them, they will exist for ever. Millions of pounds is spent by gun companies researching more efficient ways, better ways, more reliable ways to maim and kill other human beings. That's stupid.

The world is stupid, and that's why this discussion is stupid.

And incredibly off topic, in order to not seem like a power hungry *Removed*, I'll people who have been involved in the discussion a chance to reply to this in here if they so wish, beyond which point any off topic replies will result in action blah blah blah PM Me.

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Also what Malibu said whilst I was writing my essay, anyone asks for a TL;DR and I'll punch them in the face and warn them.