What can be done about mass shootings in America?

Unless guns are kept out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have them, there will be mass shootings. That can’t happen unless the 2nd amendment is done away with or changed... being neither of those situations are in anyway likely in our lifetimes you’ll see just as many if not more atrocities... “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

That militia have been rather quiet for 230 years or whatever since that was decreed.. don’t think a single US president has attempted to sign the White House over to the Russians...or sell the pentagon to Mongolia to build an ice rink... however ..

Have you ever watched the ads on commercial breaks in the US? They have nonstop ads for pills for every and any ailment. I suppose our equivalent is our nonstop ads for online betting companies.

It will probably take a monumental catastrophe of 3 figure fatalities to motivate any real change but even so diehard states will look to undermine anything that might appear at a Federal level.

2A advocates are f*cking rabid about retaining it. The ironic thing being that on the day when it could be argued they would have been best justified to invoke it and come out with their guns to protect their democracy was on January 6th this year when the sitting President tried to subvert the Democratic process in order to stay in power. All the 2A advocates were present, only they were the ones trying to assist the President in achieving his goal.

What can be done about them?

Who says anything needs to be done? Most Americans are just fine with mass shootings, so long as their personal freedoms are untouched.

Sandy Hook was 10 years ago. Little has changed.

While this video is very interesting to watch it does not change my believe that American both government & military place very little value on human life ie their war on terror has killed 800000+ lives in the last 10 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE

Cancel Mass!

There's definitely nothing to be said for another mass!

Pity the people who are adamant in keeping guns available are also massive proponents of restricting access to healthcare.

If Sandy Hook wasn't enough to bring about the necessary changes then absolutely nothing will.

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If the massacre of children in a school won't change gun laws, then absolutely nothing will. If the World Trade Centre attacks had still killed 3,000 people, but had been fifty Islamic miltants with legally-held guns instead of planes, that still wouldn't have changed gun laws. Instead of "maybe we shouldn't sell guns to anyone", it would have ended up as an effective ban on weapon ownership by anyone with tanned skin and anyone who looked like they might be muslim. Gun sales to rich & white people of course would have continued to skyrocket.

On the whole, the US is a failed entity beyond fixing. The main reason that other countries have open gun laws without the mass shootings is a cultural issue. American culture is what's broken here, not gun laws. American culture rewards selfishness, sociopathy and greed. Honesty, empathy, selflessness and charity without reward are seen as a sign of weakness.

This creates the "every man for himself" attitude that pervades in the US, and ultimately leads to individuals taking matters into their own hands and massacring innocents.

There's loads of sport applications for handguns/AR15 style rifles.

It's not really the primary purpose though is it? Maybe I could be wrong, I'm no expert. Like if they have sport applications then make them incapable of killing people then. Like paint ball or bbs or whatever. You can still do rifle shooting or clay pigeon etc. What makes it more sporting to play with a weapon that's easy to conceal?

The second amendment does tend to get re-interpreted a bit, but overall it has been found to not legalise someone stockpiling military weapons, and focusses more on the right of an individual to have weapons at home should they ever be needed.

From an outsider's perspective, there is a lot of debate particularly around the AR-15-style. It looks like a military weapon.

It looks like the kind of weapon we've seen in every single war movie since the 1970s:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/mediaviewer/rm542471936/

I got into this with someone who loves guns, and it turns out that it's really just window dressing. It's a pretty ordinary gun underneath it at all, just dressed up in macho clothes to make the owners feel like they're Rambo. A marketing gimmick. And of course they sell all sorts of attachments and bit and bobs to further the facade.

It's a 1 litre Ford Fiesta with a body kit and a loud exhaust.

The reality is that it's not a military weapon. It doesn't even come close to the standard issue military stuff. It just looks the part. Being mostly a mechanical device and widely-owned, there are of course some mods that can be made to make it fire in an automatic way. But these tend to be outlawed pretty quickly.

The reality is that most mass shootings in the US use a multitude of weapons (whatever they can get their hands on), and the vast majority of people who die in mass shootings (like 90%+) are shot with a handgun.

The discussion around sport rifles and such is largely a distraction because outlawing them wouldn't in any way reduce the number or intensity of mass shootings in the US.

Ar 15 is just a semi automatic rifle that can be tarted up to look like a military rifle. it is basically a hunting rifle. Also it is not a specific product it is a more of a design specification for how the gun works.

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I can't but in the States self defense is a perfectly legitimate reason to own a gun. There's even concealed carry permits so one can carry a handgun at all times. There's also open carry. You'l see arseholes doing youtube vids open carrying in towns just to say look at me. Usually the vid will involve an encounter with police.

I've been living in US a few years now, can't say I agree with this part of your statement. By no means saying it is perfect, but it is not the immoral dystopian place either.

As with a lot of places, the bad stories get attention but it still has a lot of positives. At least that's my experience in New England region, which to be fair is very different to a lot of the rest of the country in many ways. Even here, the 'Live Free or Die' motto of New Hampshire actually makes me thing of just how engrained the abject fear many here do have when it comes to government legislation. A fear which I think is irrational in the world of the 21st century.