https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/05/trump-s-knife-crime-claim-how-do-the-us-and-uk-compare-
Lol what?
Most sources will show that the USA has similar or higher knife crime than the UK.
The user-base for this website is predominantly American so please, get out your pitchforks (semi-auto 40 round capacity "not an assault rifle" weapons) and rip me to shreds over this.
My actual opinion on the american epidemic of mass shootings & what directions are available to you lot:
Guns are part of your culture, guns can protect you, guns are written into your constitution, guns are on the hip of every cop in the country, guns outnumber people in the us 1.2-1, guns are expensive, guns have a lobby, guns are political, guns have influence, guns kill, guns kill multiple people regularly, guns allow mentally unstable people to kill multiple people regularly, your culture, your constitution allows this.
There are too many guns already in your country with too many people feeling like they have a born right to own them. Yet they weep and send they're prayers every time this happens. From an outsider it seems ridiculous. Especially coming from a country that has no constitution and actually very little binding my rights to anything apart from the Magna Carta written in 1215.
But you do have a constitution, and I can sympathise with that. It's a set of rights and values that your born with. It's what makes you a US citizen. It's arguably the most valuable part of your culture and what protects you from the government.
I can understand then, with so much distrust in your government for the past century, that if anyone was to consider changing the constitution, specifically the 2nd amendment you would kick, claw and shoot your way to stop them.
But why?
Is it because you genuinely have a fear that the government could take over with force & you'd need a gun to protect yourself?
Is it because you genuinely have a fear that someone else has a gun and you need one yourself to defend against them?
Is it because this is your right and once one is changed they could change them all?
Is it a mixture of all of those? Something else?
Would changing the 2nd amendment resolve any of the mass shooting issues your country faces anyway? I don't know. But I do know that whenever this topic comes up the bottom line in why nothing changes is because the 2nd amendment trump card gets played and you all stop in your tracks... I'd forfeit my right to a gun if it meant the mentally brainwashed incel behind the barrel aimed at my head was lowered too.
But I forgot, you have the US political system that works on bribes and laundering - this conversation is pointless. Find a way to make money without the sale and distribution of weapons and you lot might have a chance. Until that happens you'll be having this conversation until the end of time.
