Mental block over gun control

The three speeches of three presidents. They said more or less the same things after three different school shootings. Alas, no one banned the sale of guns!

After the tragic incident in Connecticut when the whole country is in mourning, Gun Control is still not a Top Priority for the American government.

I kind of like this Generic Gun Massacre cartoon. Let’s play fill in the blank.

Gun ads in America. Shocking.

ABC news:

There are more than 129,817 federally licensed firearms dealers in the United States. Of those, 51,438 are retail gun stores, 7,356 are pawn shops and 61,562 are collectors, with the balance of the licenses belonging mostly to manufacturers and importers of firearms and destructive devices.

In 2010 there were 5,459,240 new firearms manufactured in the United States, nearly all (95 percent) for the U.S. market. An additional 3,252,404 firearms were imported to the United States.

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‘Guns are bad, I tell you.’

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Adam Lanza was intelligent, shy, nerdy, genius, goth, quiet, remote, socially awkward. He probably suffered from Asperger syndrome and some psychiatric disorders! If the US had strict gun control laws, Adam wouldn’t have been able to get his hands on guns so easily. And if the US had universal health care system, Adam wouldn’t have been left untreated.