Is Obama's carpet big enough to sweep this under.

[wide eyed and legless]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/gunman-in-mass-shooting-in-california/story-e6frg6so-1227631887153

Last week he said,"Enough is enough" over the shootings at the clinic what will he do after this.

 

[mwd]

Well the Good Ole US of A is the safest place in the world Ohh Yehh.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead


Seems the end is quickly coming for the innocent folks of America.

http://www.refinery29.com/2015/12/98673/america-most-popular-black-friday-sale-item-guns

The FBI doing thousands of checks per minute.

Too little to late over there.

 

[technobabble66]

Yeah it's terrible how Obama blocked the gun reforms. I'm sure he's feeling really ashamed ...

 

[Kumamoto_Ken]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/gunman-in-mass-shooting-in-california/story-e6frg6so-1227631887153

Last week he said,"Enough is enough" over the shootings at the clinic what will he do after this.

Not sure what he'll do, but here's what was reported in this article:

US President Barack Obama extended his condolences to the victims and their families and said it was clear there was a pattern of mass shootings in the United States that had no parallel anywhere else in the world.
As he has done after other massacres in recent months, Mr Obama emphasised the need for tighter gun control and said bipartisan action was needed.
"We have a no-fly list where people can't get on planes, but those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm and there's nothing we can do to stop them," he told CBS.
"That's a law that needs to be changed."
"We should never think this is just something that happens in the ordinary course of events, because it doesn't happen, with the same frequency, in other countries."
According to figures compiled by the Mass Shooting Tracker there have been at least 1042 mass shootings in the United States since 20 students and six staff were gunned down in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in December 2012.

 

[brentice]

Whilst the N.R.A has so much political pull I think Obama is powerless to do anything really

 

[wide eyed and legless]

The N. R. A. and any other firearms lobbyists have got to be taken on at some point, Obama will not do it, it's to close to the end of his term, he will leave it for someone else to attempt to make changes.

 

[Droopy Brew]

Obama wants it, he just understands the reality of it. Not only the gun lobby but the gun mentality of the US is too strong. Why sweep under the carpet what the community is willing to accept in order to preserve their "rights to bear arms"?

 

[Bribie G]

Being a lame duck president, doubt if Obama can do much. I expect Trump will now pipe up "serves the retards right".

With 373 police per 100,000 population compared to 217 in Australia and a quarter of the planet's entire prison population incarcerated in a nation with only 4.4% of the planet's population they still have massive crime problems and there's probably not a lot more that they can do. One would conjecture that something in the USA is fundamentally and probably terminally broken.

Now for a few comments such as "I love the USA and have a wonderful time whenever I go there". Of course you do, as you can do in South Africa or even the former Soviet Union as long as you pick your areas.

Bet you never went to places like these, which is where many millions of Americans are condemned to live, and have a nice stroll around checking your wallet and i-phone as you go.
Not having a shot at Americans as people, the ones I've met have been good solid human beings (apart from my mate Steve the ex SEAL who returned and smashed up the ATM in Redcliffe when it took his card) but what hope do many of them have in a fractured society, and why would we be surprised that gun crime is rife.

 

[pcmfisher]

Ain't nothing gunna change............

 

[Feldon]

Is restricting the sale of guns going to change anything, even in the long term?

Not saying it wouldn't be a step in the right direction, but there's already millions of guns available in US society. You could shut down every gun shop in the country and there's enough guns already in circulation for mass killers to use for centuries to come.

To my mind the bigger problem are the violent computer games which desensitize people from childhood and trains them in the mental skills needed to carry out mass killings.

 

[Dave70]

Why would Obama feel pressure do anything? Gun crime is on the decrease in the US and has been for the last decade.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/fbi-gun-murders-continue-to-fall/

 

[fraser_john]

Have to remember the configuration of the US political system is vastly different to ours. He is elected by the people and can only ask Congress and the Senate to enact laws for him, that is it, "ask". Sure, he signs them if they are enacted and then they are laws on the books, but he cannot force legal change on his own, unless he wants to instigate martial law and then, every US citizen has the right to grab a gun and say hang on, you cannot do that, though, these days, they'd be called terrorists and not patriots, their constitution gives them the right to overthrow a corrupt and illegitimate government, but, it did not work out so well for McVeigh.

 

[TheWiggman]

To my mind the bigger problem are the violent computer games which desensitize people from childhood and trains them in the mental skills needed to carry out mass killings.

Really?

 

[RobW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1qE8eDkzgE

 

[superstock]

To my mind the bigger problem are the violent computer games which desensitize people from childhood and trains them in the mental skills needed to carry out mass killings.

These are the recruits the US military are using the fly their drones and other remote controlled devices.

 

[booargy]

The US without guns would be like Netherlands with no windows or weed, Thailand with no ladyboys, let them kill each other so long as we can go there to visit ranges

 

[Blind Dog]

As I understood it, the right to keep and bear arms is protected by a the 2nd amendment to the US constitution and therefore would need 2/3 support in both houses and would then need to be ratified by 75% of the States before any changes are made. Snowball and hell come to mind

 

[whitegoose]

The US without guns would be like Netherlands with no windows or weed, Thailand with no ladyboys, let them kill each other so long as we can go there to visit ranges

All round charming attitude to the world

 

[klangers]

To my mind the bigger problem are the violent computer games which desensitize people from childhood and trains them in the mental skills needed to carry out mass killings.

Let's ban video games rather than guns? I'm not suggesting you said that, but if you were then that's putting the horse before the cart. People aren't killing people with video games.

It's been studied before and no link has been found. I am not familiar with the article(s) itself but google will find it pretty quickly.

Now for some anecdotal "evidence": I've grown up playing violent computer games. I started playing Wolfenstein when I was 5 or 6 (yeah I'm gen Y before the young'un comments appear), Duke Nukem a couple years later and so on and so forth as the realism increased to where we are today, with super-gore games like Left4Dead (which I do enjoy). I have no inclination to go on a "real" rampage. Nor do I feel mentally prepared for one. What it has done (I believe) is given me excellent spatial awareness and fine motor skills as well as fast reaction times.

I do not condone games like Carmageddon where the aim is to kill innocent people in the most gruesome way imaginable. But to say all violent video games are bad I believe is a very long bow to draw.

The USA is a perfect storm with a culture and history of violence and violent crime, a real gun "culture", huge levels of discontent and easily available, fully automatic, battlefield-grade assault rifles hanging on the bloody shelf at Walmart. If your ex-boss really had a lend of you and you saw red, it's as easy as buying a bloody loaf of bread, go shoot him in the head.

 

[Dave70]

The USA is a perfect storm with a culture and history of violence and violent crime, a real gun "culture", huge levels of discontent and easily available, fully automatic, battlefield-grade assault rifles hanging on the bloody shelf at Walmart. If your ex-boss really had a lend of you and you saw red, it's as easy as buying a bloody loaf of bread, go shoot him in the head.

In all fairness, you aren't allowed to load the weapon, in this case a .45 auto S&W, until you exit Walmart. At least thats how they roll in Pahrump Nevada.
True story.