I have crawled out of hiding to address a certain mass shooting that recently occurred- of which killed 50 PEOPLE and left another 50+ hospitalized.

The FBI identified the attacker as a US-born citizen named Omar Mateen, who had Afghan parents.

Now here's my question...

Why the FUCK are we giving GODDAMN ASSAULT RIFLES to people who have been interviewed by the FBI not once, but TWICE about possible extremist/terrorist ties? I don't care about how vehemently you are against gun control. But there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for anyone like that to be able to carry a fucking fully-automatic rifle that can shoot and injure or kill OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE!

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But there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON

Wrong. There is a reason. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's called the second amendment to the US Constitution. Now we most likely do not know if the guns were purchased in commercial United States store, but disallowing gun sales to mentally unstable people sends us down a slippery slope of guns laws.

Yeah, just like banning felons from driving licenses has resulted in no one being able to drive.

Well we've been having gun laws grow since they were introduced in 1934.

Because Republicans (ya know, Trump's party) blocked a law which would have made it illegal for people on watch lists to buy guns.

They apparently want potential terrorists to be able to buy assault rifles 'for self defense'

Benjamin, i believe you're not going far enough in your defense of the right to carry guns. not only does 'disallowing gun sales to mentally unstable people send us down a slippery slope of gun laws', but mentally unstable people should be legally obliged to have guns. i would recommend that the more unstable they are, the more guns they be given. paranoid schizophrenics, for instance, should be obliged to have at least five guns. and if they have less than the designated number, then they should be arrested by battalion-sized swat teams...

now, i know there are naysayers out there who would say "such a policy is certifiably insane", "no society could possibly survive the ensuing onslaught of random, impulse-driven violence" and "i don't really want to live in a place where every day feels like a hollywood zombie movie". but at least the second amendment to the US constitution would remain sacrosanct. and some simply do not understand how important such principles are, damn it.

Because Republicans (ya know, Trump's party)

Because Democrats (ya know, the party that split our country in half)

Yeah, just like banning felons from driving licenses has resulted in no one being able to drive.

A driver's license cannot be used to defend yourself.

The second amendment was issued when the most advanced gun out there was a non-repeating rifle. As such, it can be viewed as not violating the second amendment while banning access to semi-auto and automatic weapons. In the US, 3/40s of all shooting deaths are accidental, so clearly there are too many weapons floating around. The US has the highest gun-related death rate and the most guns per person of any first-world state, clear evidence we have too many guns, yet again.

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I am neither republican nor democrat. My vote in the last four presidential elections has been split. That said, the Republicans are far worse as a party. It is they who are divisive and attempt to marginalize people. They constantly tout the second amendment while completely ignoring the first amendment (and the basis of this nations founding).

Democrats introduced legislation attempting to prevent such people from having legal access to firearms. Republicans blocked it. This blood is on their hands.

The US has the highest gun-related death rate

Well yes, Brazil had around 40,000 gun murders in 2010, compared to America's 12,000. Assuming you meant the United States of Brazil.

In Brazil you need a license to own a gun and you can't carry it outside your house. You also need to be 25 years old to legally own one (though you don't need to be 25 years old to be forced into a organization dedicated to killing whoever politicians want).

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

Yes, the United States is number 1 on the gun ownership list, but:

1. Correlation does not imply causation. It can be other things like mental health or maybe a terrorist organization starting with an I?
2. After a school near* me had a stabbing, there were absolutely no political motives. 20 people injured, 3 of which I know personally.
3. Switzerland is also pretty damn high on that list, and you don't hear about terrorist attacks or shootings in there. They have relatively
strict borders compared to the EU also.

* http://heavy.com/news/2014/04/franklin-regional-high-school-multiple-stabbing/

Well yes, Brazil had around 40,000 gun murders in 2010, compared to America's 12,000. Assuming you meant the United States of Brazil.
I specified first world country, which you clearly didn't read, as such Brazil is an invalid example, as it does not have high enough living standards to meet HDR values for such a recognition, sitting at .755, which is below the .9 threshold, for reference, US is at .915.

1. Correlation does not imply causation. It can be other things like mental health or maybe a terrorist organization starting with an I?
While that is true, As I already specified, 3/40s of US gun related deaths are accidental, as such your suggested issues are not really supportable either. I assume, given the lack of research on this topic, thanks to the NRA defunding any attempt to do any research that the amount of guns you have lying around increases the odds of an accidental shooting.

2. After a school near* me had a stabbing, there were absolutely no political motives. 20 people injured, 3 of which I know personally. And what does this have to do with our discussion involving gun availability?

3. Switzerland is also pretty damn high on that list, and you don't hear about terrorist attacks or shootings in there. They have relatively strict borders compared to the EU also. Switzerland is also very small, and has easily defendable borders, you might as well point at Japan as well then, and they have some of the strictest gun laws in the world. As such, this is also an derailing of the purpose of this thread, so lets stay away from it.

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Why the FUCK are we giving GODDAMN ASSAULT RIFLES to people who have been interviewed by the FBI not once, but TWICE about possible extremist/terrorist ties? I don't care about how vehemently you are against gun control. But there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for anyone like that to be able to carry a fucking fully-automatic rifle that can shoot and injure or kill OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE!

The shooter was a security guard and just had a ton of guns. He was previously interviewed by the FBI three times, and they found that there was no reason to conduct further investigations. To say that he should have been denied his constitutional right to buy a gun (especially when He needed one for his career) simply because he had in some point in the past been interviewed by authorities is ludicrous.

Because Republicans (ya know, Trump's party) blocked a law which would have made it illegal for people on watch lists to buy guns.

They apparently want potential terrorists to be able to buy assault rifles 'for self defense'

The watch list has something like a 40% inaccuracy rate, which is just inexcusable. Come up with a better document and then we can talk about banning people from buying guns.

Also, it's pretty irrelevant since the shooter wasn't even on the terrorist watch list.

Yeah, just like banning felons from driving licenses has resulted in no one being able to drive.

Not sure where you got this from, but I have relatives who are felons and have drivers licenses.

The US has the highest gun-related death rate and the most guns per person of any first-world state, clear evidence we have too many guns, yet again.

This doesn't really paint the whole picture. Both beleize and Iran have higher intentional homicide rates than the US, and South Korea, Japan, France, Iceland, Finland, and Belgium have higher suicide rates than either the US's homicide or suicide rate.

Lot of good their lack of guns is doing them huh?

First world country is an actual term? I thought it was just Cold War terms.

Accidental gun deaths, what the fuck? Sources please

time 2 take da guns WHAHHA!!

The first world is a term for countries that are American allied, it has little in relation to any other specification, and therefore useless when arguing about something that doesn't pertain to the country being allied to the US or not.

That said, the Republicans are far worse as a party. It is they who are divisive and attempt to marginalize people.

Ha. That's funny. The Democrats have divided this country just as much as the Republicans, if not more. It's the Democrats who constantly pander to minorities and alienate those who oppose special interest agendas, while at the same time working to keep minority tensions high so they can continue to portray themselves as glorious progressive saviors.

hey constantly tout the second amendment while completely ignoring the first amendment

Citation needed.

Secondly, Democrats don't support the first amendment. If they did, they wouldn't be the ones who push for "Hate speech" laws and suppress religious freedoms.

With that out of the way. On topic: I'm pretty pro-gun, but I have to agree that stricter controls are really needed in this country. There's nothing wrong with sensible background checks, and, I personally don't see why we need the common citizens to have automatic weaponry. Semi-auto rifles, shotguns, and handguns can easily serve all our self-defense/hunting needs.

Semi-auto rifles, shotguns, and handguns can easily serve all our self-defense/hunting needs.

The gun he used was a semi-automatic rifle.

For HDR: http://hdr.undp.org/en Technically speaking, the proper term is very high development, but I'm too used to using the term first world, so I kinda forget to use proper terms, sorry about that.

for Accidental gun deaths: http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/, I got my number wrong due to a typo, so sorry. I have edited the value in my statements to be reflective of this error.

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