Are Americans...

[1ozzy]

... really that stupid that they can't find a way to take firearms from the mentally deficient (or stop them owning them in the first place) or are they all rowing the same boat?

Yeah, I know, it's the right to bear arms.

Sadly I just watched a news item concerning another shooting of innocent people in America.

It's bad enough declaring war on another country but to have laws that allow psychopaths to own the weapons that allow them to commit mass shootings. beggars belief.

[1ozzy]

Just chatting,

//A determined individual will still be able to get hold of a weapon for centuries. //

So let's not make it against the law, wouldn't want a determined individual to become a criminal would we.

//Took you an hour to come up with that drivel, did it? Lol.//

Nah Spicey, I took a meal break, what's your excuse for the pissant "but the people want it argument"

Have a look at the laws of the country you live in, hey, here's an idea.
Make guns more accessible and your knife crimes will decrease, LOL.

[Zacs-Master]

Anyone any idea what point our antipodean friend is trying to make?

[1ozzy]

Never will firearms be removed from society Retro, but, they can be reduced and if bad people need to make their own they will be less lethal than a semi-automatic professionally built machine.
Plus the bad people wont allow them to get into the hands of a mentally disturbed person.
Otherwise they may get shot themselves.

[1ozzy]

Beg for help, some kind soul will explain ;-)

[Zacs-Master]

Who says they'll have to make their own. Do you know where automatic weapons are made. Clue;it's not just America. So unless you're proposing a world wide ban on the production of guns (which is even more preposterous than other arguments you've made) they could and would be smuggled into the US if the desire was strong enough.