BAN computer games or guns?

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Or maybe make gun licenses mandatory. You have to have a drivers license to drive..and vehicles just have the risk of killing people they aren't designed specifically for it but you still have to have a license..yet anyone can just walk into a store and buy a gun.

I though gun licenses were a thing in the states. Or is that just some states?

It wasn't so much an argument as a flippant illustration of how idiotic it is to think that theres a causative relationship between playing video games/being on the internet/having access to guns and violence.

No one will need to fabricate firearms because of all the ones already in circulation, and the same goes for ammo. I have some 7.92mm Mauser ammo that was manufactured in the early 1940's and it's still nice and shiny and it still goes bang. Thanks to anti-gun politicians and the media giving free advertisements to the gun industry, especially in the past ten years, gun and ammo sales have been off the charts. The scary AR-15 is now the most popular long arm in the USA. Good luck seeing those even close to gone.

Licensing; all that does is give the authorities a tool to use to confiscate someones belongings (guns) over the most petty of excuses.
"Joe Shmoe said something hateful on twitter (said he voted for Trump, doesn't recycle, wants to built the wall, etc..) and he shows up as having a gun licence. He's obviously unhinged and dangerous so we gotta confiscate his guns!!"

I don't really have the time or the inclination to get bogged down in this. You new people just copy and paste gunz-r-bad into the search window in the upper right corner and read all the threads where this issue has been hashed out over all the years I've been on WP (since the Neolithic age). Good luck finding one instance where the anti-gun people here have brought anything valid to the table. This debate has been won so many times there's no need to keep rehashing it. I intentionally added "gunz-r-bad" to each of those threads not so much to make fun of the childish rhetoric of the anti-gunners, but mostly to aid in future searches.
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I would say that one of the factors why mass shootings happen is the accessibility to guns.
And of course, living in a country where guns are freely available is going to increase the risk considerably.

I also think that the correlation between violent computer games and mass shootings is again another factor.
How significant this factor is, again, i do not know.

Without being able to do a thorough analysis of the perpetrators of such crimes, i think it is hard to really understand the true nature of such crimes.

I do suspect however that over the past 20 years, there have been a high number of the mass shootings that appear to be politically motivated, with a number of these shootings being performed by people who come from a white supremacist background.

If this information is true, then it would appear that holding white supremacist beliefs would also be a factor as the cause of these shootings. But again, without a thorough analysis of the facts, i would say that it would be hard to really gain a deep understanding of the nature of these terrible events.

I am a little bit suspicious of people such as Steve Bannon of Chambridge Analytica, who is also the ex-strategist to President Trump, who is also presently funding far right political activists to start political careers.

I would not be surprised to hear that this man is behind a number of these events, so that he and his political allies can then use these events to their advantage in politics, perhaps even to start a 3rd world war.

Creating many small events that accumulate and are used by the propagandists to slowly agitate and then manipulate the public while being designed to ultimately cause a big global race hate war where the race supremacists can take over and enforce their bigoted hierarchy on the world while ruling like Gods.

The Helter Skelter strategy that Charles Manson tried on all those years in the 60s, although, he was likely
programmed to do so by one of his showbiz buddies frequenting the Process Church of the Final Judgement...

Computer games aren't mentioned in the constitution, though. And since they will never be able to successfully ban guns, they have to try something. I don't think either would work anyway. Somewhere along the line it has been introduced or communicated that life is not sacred.

Also, the gun bearing/owning citizens of the US know that it's impossible to get every gun. A lot of guns may have been registered at the time of purchase, but many have secretly changed hands many time since. The guns can't all be found and we know that. So, we'll be thinking, " I know X has a weapon no one will ever find, so I'm not giving up my weapon."

The only solution is to make crappy parenting illegal since that's what all this really boils down to.

I say BAN BOTH...for a fixed period and see which works best.