No, it really isn’t rocket science at all. Mainly because there are somewhere around 400 MILLION firearms currently in circulation in the US, so pretty much whatever is done to limit them from this point on is pissing into a hurricane. Plus you don’t have to put more restrictions on the people who purchase firearms…

Yeah, sorry, he was a career criminal all ready prohibited from owning a firearm. But since you assume that you’re sharing the country with 40-80 million hair-trigger psychopaths despite no evidence to support that assumption, I’m going to guess that getting accurate information first instead of just blabbering out…

Why not, most of the fucking idiots here act like the gun made the guy shoot Smith.

No, they didn’t, you dolt. The concert venue prohibited firearms. The convention floor itself did not.

They don’t give a damn. Like most of the knee-jerk anti-gun people here, they’re just going to gloss over the fact the shooter was a felon and ineligible to legally own a firearm in favor of making it sound like an NRA rep was waiting at the gate the last time he got out of lockup and handed him the gun for free.

The shooter in this case already had a weapons charge conviction on his record and nobody’s even the least bit surprised he had a loaded gun in his car.

Like I said, I don’t think there’s anyone who needs to own a gun besides people in a few specialist professions, but using a tragedy get a few cheap digs in at others is tacky at best.

The thing about bullies is that when someone smaller and weaker gets the better of them, even if they still win the fight, they’ll never be the same again.

It is just fucking awful that you had to be subjected to something like that. So many of the people in my family are LGBT folks and I have helped them do the same thing you’ve had to do in learning to defend themselves by whatever means works best for them. There are too many people on our side of the political fence…

I was specifically talking about the people hoping for a shootout at the RNC corral falling back on “satire” as an excuse for what they were saying. Just as I was specifically only addressing the morons here who were practically wetting themselves in glee over the prospect of same. Now go find someone else’s leg to…

Yeah, never said that was the only motivation, just that it was one. And you’re right, I do get angry when people want other people to die violently over political disagreements. I get the feeling you’re far too intelligent to lower yourself to something like that. Good for you, snowflake.

Gawker is not real life. It’s an echo chamber. Which is why I was only talking about people commenting here, hoping their little hearts out for tragedy. I know this place isn’t real life and neither are any of the other sites where people were patting themselves on the back for trolling that petition. If any of these…

When people here are talking about how hilarious it would be if a shootout started, talking about throwing lit firecrackers in there, yeah I’m pretty sure a good number of people were hoping for bloodshed. I’m sure you’ll call it “satire” or some other weak excuse. I understand that was Limbaugh’s bit when someone…

Anyone who didn’t see this coming is a moron. Even if the Secret Service hadn’t stepped in to squash this, the owners of the venue would have. So very sad for all the dumb fuckers here who signed the petition in hopes of bloodshed.

And that’s exactly it. A vote for Clinton is a vote for white, middle-class liberals to maintain their comfortable existence and the possibility of giving the groups they hate a shot in the junk, as we maintain the foreign policy that’s killed hundreds of thousands of people overseas and the domestic policy that’s…

And if those assault rifles are perfectly legal, how do you know they’re planning to commit a crime with them?

According to gunpolicy.org, Brazil’s homicide rate with firearms has held relatively steady since 2000 at about 18-19 per 100,000. However their overall homicide rate has increased from 26.7 per 100,000 in 2000 to 29 per 100,000 as of 2012. Both the overall homicide rate and the firearms homicide rate in the US has…

Gun violence is an epidemic

You said “every single country”. You didn’t say “every single country except Brazil”. And perhaps you should look to your own country before talking about what a hellhole ours is. When your police forces aren’t going around executing street kids maybe I’ll think about accepting your criticism, but I wouldn’t hold my…

Oh please, every single country that banned guns completely reported less mass murders and gun homicides.