If not then,
when? How many more people have to die until something is done? When is America going to finally admit it has a problem? Because it's only when something horrific happens that the conversation is even raised at all.
You're bringing up specific incidents. Fine. I'll accept that we can't prevent every tragedy. Does that mean we don't at least
try?
Because Japan has had 5 incidents of mass violence since the turn of the century.
Five.
Meanwhile, this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ge_killers_(Americas)
This list is long, depressing, and make special note of this:
quote:
This section does not include school massacres; workplace killings; religious, political, or racial crimes; or mass murders that took place primarily in a domestic environment, like familicides, which are covered in their own categories.
It's horrific. And you will notice very quickly that the vast majority of such events happened in the US, and a good portion of them after the end of the assault weapons ban. And this list doesn't even include Dylan Roof, Omar Mateen, or the guy who shot up the Sikh temple.
Here is a more in-depth list of specifically American events:
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...ther-jones-full-data
The Japanese incidents are notable because it's otherwise
really rare.
Don't give me that "we can't prevent all of it, so we shouldn't try to prevent any of it" bullshit.
