Yet Another Shooting.

[Garaman]

How sad, and how shocking that they continue to allow it to happen?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44173954

[EDDIE51]

Jack the hat. Limitation of ammunition has been suggested and ideas of what a sensible limit should be have been sought.
Many gun owners said they regularly use 1,000 rounds a month for practice alone. No one was willing to support a limit under 5,000 rounds a month. Walmart the USA supermarket has guns and boxes of 1,000 rounds of ammunition on the shelves with the food and clothes. You can buy a loaf of bread a bottle of milk , a gun and 5 boxes of ammo, just by putting them in your trolley and paying at the checkout. Their idea of control is only allowing a to buy customer 5 boxes of ammunition per day.

[DTCwordfan]

along the lines of what I have suggested, jth.....price them out, rebate the tax back through those who use legitimate sources so it's more controlled.

One of my daughters is in the High School two up from where it happened....lock down there too.

[DTCwordfan]

Just one thing, it's not reality, just as over here, to think you will take everything off the market - you won't - but 95% control, then maybe 98% is better than the freely available Walmart sales that Eddie refers to.

Do Asda sell such munitions and weaponry?

[jno]

there have been questions here about why Sadiq isn't stopping violence in the streets, it's true. Still, since the home secretary is no longer May/Rudd, perhaps some of the criticism will now be aimed in his direction.

[Peter Pedant]

// One of my daughters is in the High School two up from there //

god you randy old sad - how old are you ?

[naomi24]

Some here have changed their tune.

[Peter Pedant]

// Sadly, punishment is not the answer. You can destroy a vicious dog when it has bitten a child, but that doesn't take the bite away. //

off point.

surely that should be - and that doesnt teach other dogs not to bite ?

//Some people have changed their tune// s/o
tunes so shocking they have been removed
come on Nigh - whistle a bit and we can get to feel what shocking things they said ( sang) ....

[Peter Pedant]

is it a mayor's job to go out and hit crimz with his thingey ? ( mayoral doo-dah - ceremonial dang-dang) the mace ?

new-old use of a mace I suppose

(didnt some naughty MP play the parliamentary mace like a guitar at some point?) - just asking

[anotheoldgit]

Whilst this situation across the pond is of great concern, we should be focusing more on the killings taking place within our own shores.

The USA is always under scrutiny with more chances to have a dig at President Trump, what about the murder rate in South Africa, Mexico, the Caribbean and as already mentioned our own country?

[sp1814]

AOG

No - we can discuss not only crime here, but also in the US. There is space for both to hold our attention.

How about this - you go ahead and raise questions about gun and knife crime here, and others can raise questions about the US.

I think that could work.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Just saying that some seem to be more interested in what is taking place in the US than what is taking place in their own country.

[Zacs-Master]

Yet on your other thread you draw our attention to NY crime stats. Strange dichotomy there.

[anotheoldgit]

No I didn't it was the Met Commissioner Cressida Dick who did that, so to make their lack of action over her London killings appear less serious.

[sp1814]

AOG

As long as there are others, such as you, looking at home grown crime stats, others can concentrate on issues that they feel are interesting to them.

Also, your comment about South Africa, Mexico and the Carribean doesn’t make sense.

Why would asking questions about those countries make more sense than raising questions about crime in the USA?

[Zacs-Master]

AOG, you saw fit to mention Dick’s reference to the NY crime stats to support your argument. You can’t do that and then say people should ignore US crime stats in favour of ours, otherwise you look hippocritical.

[douglas9401]

The most baffling thing about the whole constitutional bear arms stuff makes no sense at all.

Bears don't have fingers or opposable thumbs so their arms/hands would be worse than useless gun wise.

[andy-hughes]

douglas - There are threads where joking and levity is appropriate, and threads where it is not.

Guess which this one is?

[douglas9401]

That would be an opinion I think not a rule so, thanks for you input.

[andy-hughes]

douglas - // That would be an opinion I think not a rule so, thanks for you input. //

It's absolutely an opinion - and I believe it is a valid one - but defend your post by all means, if you think you can.