Even little things like
Not allowing anyone with any kind of record from owning or firing a gun is always shot down, federally.
NRA folks want everyone to have a gun. There response to these things are 'well if the teachers and janitors had a gun, none of this would happen'.
bizzarre logic.
You have two schools of thought in this country when these things happen.
Most people go "oh gosh, I've got to protect myself and get a gun"
Then the others get turned off and go gun control route.
Murders don't really show you have a gun problem per say. You've got to look at the robberies. When armed robberies are two or 3 fold higher then just regular robberies, you know you have a gun problem. Then you look at assualts. When assualts with a weapon is higher then without, you've got to many guns.
250 million guns in this country.
The guns that are killing Canadians on the streets in Canada are illegal guns from the states.
You grow the pot, we give you the guns.
That said, just to show how lost we are down here when it comes to guns. Toronto had what 40 murders 2 years ago? Causing a national outcry.
If Saint Louis had 40 murders in a year, we'd have a giant parade, and the mayor and police chief would get the medal of freedom from the president.
