It’s between 20-40 people shot EVERY WEEKEND!
Hmmm...I rather hate to be the stereotypical UK (or European for that matter) commentator here, and as a former legal firearms owner, I'm hardly anti-guns but maybe, just maybe...
...the extremely easy accessibility to firearms, particularly handguns, in the US might be thought about here?
Look, it's your country not mine and you guys do you, and yeah, it still angers me that UK Olympics pistol shooters (even the .22 rimfire guys for Pete's sake!) have to go abroad to train, such are our knee-jerk driven handgun laws (due to the Dunblane massacre), so I'm not in the business of wanting anybody's legally held, legally used, recreational firearms taken from them.
But if buying a 9mm handgun is as easy as getting a driving licence, and as cheap as a low/mid-range smartphone, then you're going to have an awful lot of guns floating around and that makes it an awful lot easier for criminals to get hold of them.
Sure, some UK organised crime gang have guns, but they're not particularly easy to replace (and once those firearms are used, these gangs tend to avoid using them again if they can, sometimes even dumping or destroying them), so they're often used sparingly and seen as the valuable assets they are.
but it seems some parts of society are in a downward spiral.
Hmmm...can you hear that?
That's the sound of the truly rich and powerful, the people you've never even heard of, the people who have contempt at the idea of constraining their behaviour because of some law or other, and who have, not just individual politicians, but the entire State in their pockets guffawing at another example of us who really don't have any power (and probably never will, the revolutionary cavalry ain't coming over the hill any time soon; capitalism has won all the strategic conflicts it has fought so far and trounced the opposition; both for good and ill) being divided and thus conquered...like us suckered (including me
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