Apart from that, one wonders when the media (some political interests too) are going to show some ethics and stop sensationalising these incidents and giving rise to copycats. There really aren't many offenders involved and all seem to be very interested in their infamy on TV.
Cannot understand why many US women carry a pistol in their handbag for protection from assault when the target is actually their handbag.
And when someone starts firing a rapid fire gun around, the damage is already done before a person can draw their gun.
If someone does shoots an intruder, the intruder's family then sue for manslaughter, or worse, murder.
Mike Harding said
08:43 PM Feb 26, 2018
The Dutch are not "Europe". There's only about three men and a dog in the place especially when the cannabis restaurants and brothels are empty.
The NRA, quite correctly, doesn't give a toss how it is being seen in Europe and especially not in the Netherlands.
Leo said
09:15 PM Feb 26, 2018
John (rockylizard)
You've got be to clear what you're talking about there. Whether it is gun violence and death in general in the US, which is overwhelmingly black, poor neighbourhood, gang and drug related, or so-called 'mass' homicides, which is a miniscule population of offenders and the number of deaths, while horrendous (all murder is!), is relatively small too. While on that, it is strange how mass homicide by other tools, such as by arson, bomb and so on, is being excluded from the 'mass' homicide narrative. Politics.
Number of guns and population? Correlation (or mere coincidence) does not imply causality.
To work back another way, the Howard gun laws did NOT reduce the overall number of suicides in Australia. They chose another way. Noting however that hanging is by far the most popular method of suicide in Australia. Notwithstanding Australia's (and NZ's) high legal gun ownership since the year dot, suicide by firearms was always very low, as was and is gun crime.
That is enough for me. I am quite convinced that the best way of discouraging the grubs committing the mass murder by firearm is for the media to report without the sensationalism that gives the offender what he wants, his name in lights, instant notoriety and celebrity for him and his stupid grievance/rationalisation for being a loser.
The media abroad and at home encourage these types. There needs to be ethical, principled reporting, at least where these incidents are concerned. It is all about boosting audiences to get more advertising dollars.
This was sent to me from a friend in USA (Republican) regarding the NRA and how it is being seen in Europe https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/9/16448302/guns-nra-sunday-lubach
www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/21714
Apart from that, one wonders when the media (some political interests too) are going to show some ethics and stop sensationalising these incidents and giving rise to copycats. There really aren't many offenders involved and all seem to be very interested in their infamy on TV.
Gday...
https://forward.com/news/israel/170768/israel-has-fewer-guns-fewer-deaths-than-us/
Cheers - John
And when someone starts firing a rapid fire gun around, the damage is already done before a person can draw their gun.
If someone does shoots an intruder, the intruder's family then sue for manslaughter, or worse, murder.
The Dutch are not "Europe". There's only about three men and a dog in the place especially when the cannabis restaurants and brothels are empty.
The NRA, quite correctly, doesn't give a toss how it is being seen in Europe and especially not in the Netherlands.
You've got be to clear what you're talking about there. Whether it is gun violence and death in general in the US, which is overwhelmingly black, poor neighbourhood, gang and drug related, or so-called 'mass' homicides, which is a miniscule population of offenders and the number of deaths, while horrendous (all murder is!), is relatively small too. While on that, it is strange how mass homicide by other tools, such as by arson, bomb and so on, is being excluded from the 'mass' homicide narrative. Politics.
Number of guns and population? Correlation (or mere coincidence) does not imply causality.
To work back another way, the Howard gun laws did NOT reduce the overall number of suicides in Australia. They chose another way. Noting however that hanging is by far the most popular method of suicide in Australia. Notwithstanding Australia's (and NZ's) high legal gun ownership since the year dot, suicide by firearms was always very low, as was and is gun crime.
That is enough for me. I am quite convinced that the best way of discouraging the grubs committing the mass murder by firearm is for the media to report without the sensationalism that gives the offender what he wants, his name in lights, instant notoriety and celebrity for him and his stupid grievance/rationalisation for being a loser.
The media abroad and at home encourage these types. There needs to be ethical, principled reporting, at least where these incidents are concerned. It is all about boosting audiences to get more advertising dollars.