Roanoke, Virginia Machine Gun Shoot - 2005

...yet ANOTHER slaughter in the good old US of A, seems to be a weekly occurence now....will you ever realise weapons like this are completely unecessary and only cause problems?

Strange that this only ever seems to happen with any regularity in your country, coincidence?

I think not....

What, exactly, does a bunch of law-abiding, safe, responsible private citizens having fun with legally-owned automatic firearms have anything to do with a military officer killing several other soldiers on a military base, using only handguns? The weapons are completely different.

Also, your statement that "weapons like this...only cause problems" is demonstrably false: they're being used for fun in this video. Fun is not a problem, is it?

There's plenty of violence elsewhere in the world too.

Where exactly is there as many guns as the USA? Places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Ethiopia etc....so if you want to be grouped with countries like that I'm more than happy. Violent communities based on murder and retribution. In no other civilised country in the world does so much gun violence occur...and the USA prison rates for gun violence are at least 20 times higher than the next country....but, I guess that doesn't effect your warped logic, so what will? Being shot?

Top 10 countries by gun ownership (according to Wikipedia):
1. USA
2. Yemen
3. Switzerland
4. Iraq
5. Serbia
6. France
7. Finland
8. Canada
9. Sweden
10. Austria

Other than Iraq and Yemen, all first-world, industrialized nations. (Don't know much about Serbia.) Afghanistan, Somalia, and Ethiopia aren't even in the top 34 (which is as far as the list goes).

Also, nice dodge of my previous question regarding about what, exactly, a military officer killing soldiers (e.g. "murder") has anything to do with lawful people owning guns.

Yes, the US has a large number of guns per capita. It also has a large amount of violent crime. However, such violent crime tends to be limited to gang-infested, urban areas. The average, non-gang-member American is about as likely to be shot as the average Australian.

It doesn't have anything to do with lawful people owning guns, it has a lot to do with a nation crazy about guns, though ;)

Your point RE Australia is absurd. You cannot own an automatic or semi-automatic OR a handgun here....AND the screening for gun licenses is actually regulated, not an open slather like the USA. Open a bank account? Get a gun! Crazy idiots....

You are, I trust, aware that buying a gun from a dealer in the US requires a federal background check, right? Not just anyone can buy them. Automatic firearms are exceedingly tightly regulated, and require substantial paperwork to own. They're also very expensive.

What's wrong with semi-auto guns or handguns?

Anyway, what's wrong with offering a perk (be it $50, a gun, a chance at a new car, etc.) in a promotion, so long as it's legal?

Finally, please demonstrate a causal link between "lawful gun ownership" and "violent crime". So far, nobody's been able to find such a link: gun ownership in the US has increased significantly over time, yet violent crime is historically low. It seems that the two things are not related.

Indeed, FBI statistics indicate that guns are used far more often to protect people from criminals than they're used to commit crimes. Seems that gun ownership has a positive effect.

Protect? What a joke. We don't need guns here to protect ourselves...but then again, our country wasn't founded on gun violence and civil war like yours.

Please explain why prison rates relating to gun violence in the USA are 10x higher than anywhere else...or is that a convenient coincidence?

As far as I'm concerned your position isn't defendable. You're a country full of imbecilic gun totting maniacs.

The world's not ideal -- there are criminals out there. Statistics in the US show that guns are more often used to protect from crime than to commit it.

I don't know why prison rates here are higher for gun violence...perhaps because criminals are convicted more often? Honestly, I don't know. Either way, it has no bearing on lawful gun ownership.

Your comments have become needlessly insulting, and are unrelated to the video. If this continues, I will remove them.