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In reply to the discussion: Why are kids shooting other kids at school? [View all]Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Guns are MORE difficult to obtain today than they were 20 years ago. I know this personally, since I buy an occasional gun. Handguns have always been around, always will be around. If you wanted to find one 30 years ago, the local gun show was ripe for the picking, high capacity mags and all.
People in the city use guns for things that people in the country do not. However, how much of that "other usage" is because of drugs, gangs, and other societal issues.
So I pose the question to you, why do we scream about the guns instead of the drugs, the gangs, and other urban problems that are the cause, not the blame. In my humble opinion, two drug gangs fighting over turf will settle their differences with machetes and malatov cocktails if they could not get access to guns.
It's the culture, sorry.