How many more children need to die before the USA can have gun control?

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In no way is it the access to guns that is the problem. That's silly. There was at least 1 gun in every house I lived in as a teen and I knew the general location of them. Why didn't I use a gun to perform a school shooting? Because I had no *reason* or motivation to perform a school shooting. Y'all act like guns whisper into kids ears and tempt them to commit mass murder. In reality we have children that are unsupervised, possibly in neglectful and abusive homes, struggling with possible mental disorders, and we're surprised when they act out?? Really? The issue here is with the people that WANT to use guns to kill people! Why do our kids want to kill other kids?? It seems like focusing on the gun aspect is really beside the point. The bigger issue is that we have teenagers purposefully killing mass numbers of people and is becoming more and more common. The gun thing is the side problem not the motivation behind why kids want to murder.

We had a false alarm yesterday; a science teacher had a loud experiment and a neighboring teacher heard it and called in a school shooting. Generally teachers communicate if they're going to have loud noises but that didn't happen in this case. I wanted to mention this to bring up that this is the way school shootings SHOULD be handled. I'm very confident we would not have the scenario that Texas has had because we are constantly drilling our police here despite there never having been a mass school shooting before.

 

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More information about how the state of Utah responds differently to school shootings and their use of strict preventative measures may in part completely circumvent planned attempts:



In no way is it the access to guns that is the problem. That's silly. There was at least 1 gun in every house I lived in as a teen and I knew the general location of them. Why didn't I use a gun to perform a school shooting? Because I had no *reason* or motivation to perform a school shooting. Y'all act like guns whisper into kids ears and tempt them to commit mass murder. In reality we have children that are unsupervised, possibly in neglectful and abusive homes, struggling with possible mental disorders, and we're surprised when they act out?? Really? The issue here is with the people that WANT to use guns to kill people! Why do our kids want to kill other kids?? It seems like focusing on the gun aspect is really beside the point. The bigger issue is that we have teenagers purposefully killing mass numbers of people and is becoming more and more common. The gun thing is the side problem not the motivation behind why kids want to murder.

I'm sorry to pull an older post, but I am curious. While the main problem is mental based, if there was stricter gun control system the consequences would be smaller. The same kid that shot other kids at school would perhaps beat up a few if he had no access to a gun. Why is it that guns seem like a normal thing to have in US?