stonemonkey wrote:myownalias wrote:It's part and parcel of living in America, gun laws will never change, this sort of incident will happen time and time again...
My family and I were lucky; about two weeks after we moved home, our last next door neighbours boyfriend went postal and shot up the apartment, and half a dozen bullets went through the wall of our old apartment, this happened at a time we would have been at home... I'm so happy we moved away to a better location!
Would someone lose the rights/licence to hold a gun after doing something like that?
Yeah, only while they're in jail. The problem is that although the sale of firearms is very regulated in some states... other states have ZERO gun control so you can basically buy a gun without any type of background checks for crime or mental stability. Meanwhile in the same country, those same states without gun control laws will make a woman that chooses to get an abortion, have a three day wait period, force her to seek counseling and force her to have an ultrasound so she can see images of the forming fetus. You know, just in case the woman wasn't sure of what she was doing.

Sometimes it's not hate or terrorism that leads to gun crimes but just stupidity or drug induced moronacy.... I posted the following in another thread a few days ago!
SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah man has been charged after police say he tried to shoot a mouse in his pantry and ended up wounding his roommate.
Christian Sunil Paul, of Taylorsville, was charged Monday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court with one felony count of discharging a firearm with injury and one misdemeanor count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Calls to a number listed for Paul were not immediately returned Tuesday.
The 27-year-old told police he was aiming at the rodent during the Dec. 20 shooting, but the bullet went through the pantry and into the bathroom, where it hit Paul's roommate in the shoulder.
The roommate was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Court documents show authorities also found small, empty balloons and burnt tin foil in a bathroom trash can.