Steve 41oo wrote:... And that problem manifests itself regularly in American shopping malls universities schools and places of work, much more frequently than anywhere else. Sorry if that hurts.
That is certainly true. We certainly pay a price for the second amendment, nonetheless we view the price as fairly minimal and acceptable.
What we DON't have in America and what the second amendment prevents is guys like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, or Hideki Tojo running the country, and the cost in lives of THAT kind of **** is counted in millions and tens of millions and not in tens.
Last time that broke out in Europe, which was about sixty years ago, the British were already deep into some sort of a gun control scheme and there was an overwhelming concern that Germans might invade the place and nobody would have anything to shoot at them.
They actually had a big emergency gun drive here and asked everybody who had any sort of an extra rifle which used anything close to standard caliber ammo, particularly 30-06 or British 303 to donate them to the cause and shiploads of such were sent over on an emergency basis.
And then, after the war, the Brits went straight back to the same stupid bullshit.
I ask you: what could be worse than being too stupid to learn from your own mistakes?