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Links, links, links to read, read, read. I know it's a lot, so here's one for the TL;DR crowd: Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States by Ezra Klein. It even has graphs! I love graphs, don't you?

Klein amended: Mythbusting: Israel and Switzerland

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[ifuritka]

I gave up on you Americans and your love for guns a long time ago. As long as you (as a nation) believe that a gun contol will take your basic right, your freedom away, you need to be prepared to pay for your beliefs. Pity that usually the ones to pay are not those defending your gun laws the most.

[greywing]

The sad thing is, we didn't always believe that and that wasn't the intention of the Second Amendment in our Bill of Rights.

The even sadder thing is that if you break things down into specific proposals, people are on board. The ideas are sound. The regulation makes sense. (Why would we want former criminals or people who may be on terrorists lists to have access to firearms?) But politically it has become suicidal because somehow this ridiculous idea that it is your born right to carry a firearm has been pushed forward as social discourse.

Even sadder than that, I honestly can't let myself believe that that idea is in the majority of people's minds. I can't. Believing that would just make me scream and lose faith in humanity.

The saddest thing of all is that these tragedies are happening and are escalating and are occurring with more frequency and nothing is changing. And now we have children ages 5-10 dead. Because we can't get our shit together as a nation and people have ass backwards ideas--and it galls me to think that this

[ifuritka]

Actually I am glad that you ranted. Because - I am sorry to say it, because this is not something you want to hear - your point of view is very different from most Americans I've disscussed the subject of guns with. While they are of course shocked after another mass shooting and want to do something about it, this something is not a reasonable gun control. Because a reasonable gun control could take your right to have a gun away. They seem to be blind to facts and numbers clearly showing that all guns do is bring more violence in your life

[greywing]

I'm not sure I even know someone who owns a gun. And the numbers show that the number of people who own guns is going down--the reason there are so many guns is because people who do own guns tend to own more than one. I'm not quite sure what kind of situation people who don't own guns envision that they would want the failsafe of being able to get a gun. I can't picture myself purchasing a gun for reasons of self defense. I can't picture myself putting a bullet in a person or being collected enough to defend myself in a high-tension, high-stress situation using a gun.

James Brady and his wife, Sarah, went on to become active in the gun-control movement, but neither the assassination attempt nor Carter’s past derailed the gun-rights movement. In 1986, the N.R.A.’s interpretation of the Second Amendment achieved new legal authority with the passage of the Firearms Owners Protection Act, which repealed parts of the 1968 Gun Control Act by invoking “the rights of citizens . . . to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment.” This