Connecticut School Shooting

I'm not disputing that, I'm disputing what you said which is this.

But calling it a right is like saying to every cunt in America "hey, you should get a gun". That's my point about the semantics of it. It was relevant when the document was writen as they were scared of the British but now it's just dangerous.

I read somewhere that it is more to overthrow oppressive Governments but not sure how true it is.

I read somewhere that it is more to overthrow oppressive Governments but not sure how true it is.

I read somewhere that Canada actually has more guns per head than the US, And yet you never hear of this sort of thing there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

Also in this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
I was surprised to see Switzerland and Finland in the top 20.

Don't know much about Switzerland, but in Finland I believe that's mostly due to a very high suicide rate.

The real thing that should be looked at in America is providing easier access to mental help for people like this.

So many statistics being banded about on twitter, makes you wonder if people actually think about shit before they tweet/retweet

Why should they? It's about stuff they find interesting

"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed
people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."

As much as I agree with that what else do you expect?

The media is a business, they want to make money, so something like this helps them do exactly that.

Westboro Baptist Church planning on 'picketing' the funeral of the dead children

But then you could just turn around and say places that sell guns are just trying to make money, where do you stop?

Places that sell guns are just trying to make money, that won't stop because some nut job walks into a restaurant, cinema or school with a gun and shoots people. As I said I agree that the real problem is these nutjobs get their fame from this and it sets examples for other fuckers to come along and do it. Unfortunately you can't stop the media from reporting it and the majority of them won't change the way they do that either.

It can be regulated much more though, especially news outlets wrongly suggesting it was Ryan Lanza. Part of me hopes he sues whoever name him first for a shit ton of money but that probably won't happen.