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Off-Topic / Re: Tragedy and gun violence
« on: 30-01-2013, 01:01:14 »http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/29/georgia-man-guns-down-immigrant-after-gps-sends-him-to-wrong-driveway/
Woohoo! Bring more innocent deaths!
Good thing this guy defended his house from lost people!
I don't understand why Europeans think they belong talking about American policy that they can not change. Yes, I'm not totally against more background checking, but being so naive as to think that putting up a global gun ban here will end the issue, is idiotic.
Simply put, it won't work in the US, in the end a complete and total ban would probably lead to more violence than we have ever seen before here. Most gun owners would refuse to give up their guns, many would retaliate violently and most others would hide the ones they own. We have so many guns per capita that attempting to track them down and effectively seize them by force would be impossible to do. In the US we have culture conflicts that Europe doesn't have simply because European populations, no matter how heterogeneous they may seem, are nowhere near as diverse as the population of the United States. Yes, it may sound primitive, but when such different cultures collide and when many insist on holding onto older, more primeval customs and traditions, violence is unavoidable.
As terrible as it sounds, the only way things will change here will be to wait it out. Trying to rapidly force change is a stupid decision when it is actually already starting to happen at a visible rate. Things will get better in the United States, other cultures are slowly becoming more accepted in most of the country and differences are no longer being frowned upon. The subculture of violence is slowly tearing itself to pieces and in it's place minorities are now joining the American middle class and integrating with other groups. Everyone needs to calm down and wait, posting shit about how we could change will not change anything, people need to start dealing with their own issues as individuals before attacking the values of another country. Wish more Americans would.