Sat, June 4, 2022, 4:46 AM
In response to the recent deadly shootings in , , and , asked on r/AskReddit, ""
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"It’s all about access to guns. Canadians have mental health issues, bullying, violent video games, and schools with multiple access points. However, what we don’t have is easy access to firearms, specifically high capacity semiautomatic rifles and handguns."
"I am from the UK. We had a school shooting in 1996, so we tightened gun laws, and we haven't had a school shooting since. I feel like America's relationship with guns is like a child who won't put the food in their mouth, and instead just flings it around the kitchen. And you all sit around talking about the best way to fling food back."
"Sickening. Imagine saying goodbye to your child at school and not knowing if you will see them again! The reliance on guns, the glorification of guns, the demonization of those trying to change the gun laws. It's utterly beyond me. I cannot understand anyone thinking this way."
"It is scary how the gun lobby (and others like pharma and tobacco) have captured the American government."
"It's like seeing a third world where Nestlé puts a hand grenade in every packet of breakfast cereal. Sometimes they go off and kill somebody, sometimes somebody collects them until they have enough to kill a whole bunch of people all at once. Most people want it to stop and definitely don't think hand grenades should be in breakfast cereal, but the politicians who are bribed by Nestlé, and the people who say they have God on their side have an old law that says every box of cereal should ship with an indoor firework, and that law gives them rights that are more important than the people who die of hand grenades. It's just astoundingly, speechlessly, horrifyingly stupid."
In response to the recent deadly shootings in , , and , asked on r/AskReddit, ""
Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
"It’s all about access to guns. Canadians have mental health issues, bullying, violent video games, and schools with multiple access points. However, what we don’t have is easy access to firearms, specifically high capacity semiautomatic rifles and handguns."
"I am from the UK. We had a school shooting in 1996, so we tightened gun laws, and we haven't had a school shooting since. I feel like America's relationship with guns is like a child who won't put the food in their mouth, and instead just flings it around the kitchen. And you all sit around talking about the best way to fling food back."
"Sickening. Imagine saying goodbye to your child at school and not knowing if you will see them again! The reliance on guns, the glorification of guns, the demonization of those trying to change the gun laws. It's utterly beyond me. I cannot understand anyone thinking this way."
"It is scary how the gun lobby (and others like pharma and tobacco) have captured the American government."
"It's like seeing a third world where Nestlé puts a hand grenade in every packet of breakfast cereal. Sometimes they go off and kill somebody, sometimes somebody collects them until they have enough to kill a whole bunch of people all at once. Most people want it to stop and definitely don't think hand grenades should be in breakfast cereal, but the politicians who are bribed by Nestlé, and the people who say they have God on their side have an old law that says every box of cereal should ship with an indoor firework, and that law gives them rights that are more important than the people who die of hand grenades. It's just astoundingly, speechlessly, horrifyingly stupid."
