According to this article on gun control, the U.S. may not “have the appetite” for gun control laws.
Even with these facts:
Guns are a deep part of the often-violent U.S. culture. Americans are among the world’s most heavily armed people, and the country has among the highest murder rates.
There are an estimated 250 million privately owned guns in the United States, which has a population of about 300 million. About 30,000 people a year die from gun wounds, about evenly split between murders and suicides.
Polls show Americans favor tougher gun laws. But gun-rights groups have helped stop such action by rallying their members, many of them hunters, against it.
But, by far, this has been my favorite, misguided argument for why school shootings do or don’t happen:
Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America said the shootings that left 33 people dead, including the assailant, at Virginia Tech on Monday showed gun bans are the problem, not the solution.
“Isn’t it interesting that Utah and Oregon are the only two states that allow faculty to carry guns. And isn’t it interesting that you haven’t read about any school or university shootings in Utah and Oregon,” Pratt said.
Yeah, because that Thurston murder-spree wasn’t a school shooting or anything.
Isn’t it interesting that his logic is so flawed, yet he still has a snotty attitude?
Also, more guns will not ever equal less gun crime. It is an equation that can never work. Yes, a teacher with a glock might be able to shoot a student with a gun, but then, isn’t that still a school shooting?