@Crispius @chris @ProPublica

Here in Europe where guns are controlled and harder (but not impossible) to obtain, social media arguments escalating to physical violence are also an increasing problem - if angry young men can't get guns they just use knives, improvised weapons (including causing deliberate road collisions) or their own fists and feet - although gun control does at least mean its harder for a mass casualty incident to occur..

@vfrmedia @Crispius @chris @ProPublica
Exactly!

#Guns ain't the problem - #ViolenceCulture is and what other people do to others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390

What weapon they use and how legal it is irrelevant for the outcome:

Whether a victim of facist violence is getting shot, run over or choked to death doesn't change the fact that said person was a victim of a hatecrime.

How the American Media Fuels A Cycle of Violence

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@kkarhan @vfrmedia @Crispius @ProPublica absolute bullshit. respectfully. Canada has a fraction of the guns and an associated fraction of gun violence.

@chris @kkarhan @Crispius @ProPublica

Very few countries have a total ban on civilian firearms ownership - I work in a semi rural area of UK and know a few legal gun owners. The difference between USA and everywhere else, is actively encouraging an individualist vigilante culture *and* allowing ownership of military grade weapons - nowhere else in the World seems to do this. Interestingly the citizens of Serbia voluntarily handed in (some of) their guns following a (rare) mass shooting..

@chris @vfrmedia @[email protected] @Crispius @ProPublica I was once asked to sign a gun licence application to say that I thought the applicant was a fit and proper person. I refused on the grounds that I'd known her for several weeks short of the necessary two years.
@TimWardCam @vfrmedia @Crispius @ProPublica a good process. It's similar in Canada. I did the same for someone but I had known them for many years.