Another mass shooting

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I've seen loads of threads here down the years where people wrung their hands in despair about gun deaths in the United States but never one related to the numbers dying in South American, Central American, or Caribbean countries. Is it because they simply don't give a hoot about those people? It's more likely they're unaware because the corporate media is so focused on the U.S.

That’s a good point. The US constitution was written in response to the tyrannical behaviour of the UK. We here should be the last people to lecture Americans on their internal affairs.

It’s worth pointing out that only 11006 of the gun related deaths in the USA in 2016 were homicides, the remaining 26194 deaths were suicides.

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That’s a good point. The US constitution was written in response to the tyrannical behaviour of the UK. We here should be the last people to lecture Americans on their internal affairs.

It’s worth pointing out that only 11006 of the gun related deaths in the USA in 2016 were homicides, the remaining 26194 deaths were suicides.

Good point. I have never forgiven the French for forcing William Pitt to introduce income tax!

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That’s a good point. The US constitution was written in response to the tyrannical behaviour of the UK. We here should be the last people to lecture Americans on their internal affairs.

It’s worth pointing out that only 11006 of the gun related deaths in the USA in 2016 were homicides, the remaining 26194 deaths were suicides.

Is your point that we should be careful about raising concerns over 37,200 needless deaths in a year because of what happened in 1776?

Parts of America are as wedded to their right to own firearms as we are in the UK to the NHS: it's at the very core of national identity. It's going to take something big for those states to restrict firearms in any way but until that action is taken then one risks their life everyday by just going to school, going to a concert, going to the cinema, going to a shopping mall, going to a bar....the list is getting longer.