another 28 dead...when will it STOP

[Violet_Crumble]

2. I'm someone who just doesn't get that love affair with guns...

I remember back when the buy-back scheme happened, a friend of mine belonged to a gun club and had some rifles that fell into the category of 'too dangerous for someone to own'. He grumbled a lot, especially because he claimed he wasn't going to be given a fair price, but while he liked having his guns, he didn't *love* them, and he dutifully handed them in.

I don't get how less than a week after so many small children and their teachers were slaughtered that I'm seeing stuff on the internet from Americans who love their guns so goddam much that talking about how much they love them, going on and on about their precious Second Amendment, and advocating some sort of civil war if gun reform is brought in, is to them a sensitive way of responding to the massacre.

What I really don't understand is how two countries with similar beginnings as British colonies, and kinda similar in other ways, managed to be so vastly different when it comes to guns.