why not fix the real issues behind violence instead of putting bandaids on symptoms?
This is where the conversation (at a national / international level) REALLY needs to go. It seems like the number of these shootings is growing exponentially. Why? It surely isn't the availability of guns. I don't have any stats, but if I were to guess which came first, random shootings or gun control, it wouldn't be gun control.
What has changed in peoples minds that more and more think that the answer to their problems is to randomly kill others? What has changed / needs to be changed so that mental health professionals can reach these people before this happens?
Finally, and I don't really want this last part to be the direction of the thread, but like tfly said, gun-control cannot be about semi-auto / scary looking. What (other than mag capacity, and really, 6 vs 10 isn't that big of a deal) is the difference b/w a semi-auto handgun and a double action revolver of the same caliber? Every time you pull the trigger it goes bang, and if anything the semi-auto is less reliable. There are handguns that can hold 6 shotgun shells (.410) and fire them as fast as a semi-auto rifle / shotgun / pistol.
That's the problem with cities, they're refuges for the weak, the fish that didn't evolve.
I don't want to google this - sounds like a thing that NSMB will be better at.