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In reply to the discussion: I don't care what anyone thinks about their right to own guns [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)and the next guy, and the next guy, and the one after that, and the one after that. Isolated incident, mentally disturbed individual, just like all the dozens, hundreds of others. All of them "sadly disturbed individuals"; most of them also "law-abiding gun owners"...right up until the point when they weren't. And again the same tired old calls to "not politicise this horrible tragedy", just like last time, and the time before that. Never mind that the one thing they all have in common is legally-obtained firearms; much as people like you hate to admit it? Guns are the problem. Not mental illness. Other countries likely have similar levels of mental illness in their populations; I don't expect that the British, or Australians, are any less prone to mental illness or violence than Americans. But those countries have stricter gun control laws, and as a result don't have the number of incidents like this that the USA does. If this guy hadn't had a gun? Yes, he might have snapped and attacked people with a machete...but probably not. Guns are the problem, full stop.