Just reading about this horrible “Santa shooter” in California.

Every time there’s a massacre people cop out and use the excuse that a knife/screwdriver/car etc could kill people as well.

Am I the only one who’d much rather go up in a crowded room against a maniac with a Swiss Army Knife than an Armalite?

As a resident alien (from Australia) I came here understanding the difference in gun culture in the USA and have done my best not to make too many waves, but seeing shooting after shooting (particularly in schools) I’m starting to wonder how long until the penny drops and people realise that the ready availability of the world’s most efficient portable killing implement is somehow connected to the high frequency of massacres in The United States.

I don’t advocate a blanket ban (or a total ban on semi automatics as we have in Australia), but as an outsider coming in, the situation and desensitization to firearms here is borderline frightning.

The question is – what to do? There’s clearly a problem.
I agree with people who say it isn’t the guns but the people using them – but that’s my whole point. If people are going to do this sort of thing is it wise to give them such easy access to the tools?

If spelling mistakes caused by pencils caused multiple fatalities I’d want some sort of tough regulation into their use too.