Gun control in Europe is almost total. It hasn’t stopped mass shooting attacks like Las Vegas

[txradioguy]

Within hours of the horrible attack in Las Vegas, before we knew most of the relevant facts about the tragedy, gun control advocates were calling for more gun control.  Here is something I would like those advocates to consider: Europe, which has all the gun controls that are being pushed in the aftermath of the Las Vegas carnage, has actually suffered more bloodshed from these types of attacks than the U.S.

ou heard that right: Countries such as France may have made all semi-automatic guns illegal, but that hasn’t stopped killers from getting fully automatic machine guns to use in mass shooting attacks. All four of the 2015 mass public shooting in France involved machine guns, including the 130 people killed in November of that year in multiple attacks including one at a concert venue.

In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Europe saw machine gun attacks in airports and nightclubs by groups such as Black September and the Red Army Faction. In fact, machine guns are commonly used in mass shootings in the rest of the world.

This has not been the case here in the U.S. In fact, Sunday’s attack on a country music festival in Las Vegas – that left at least 58 people dead and more than 500 wounded – may be the first mass public shooting in the U.S. involving a machine gun, if it turns out the killer did use such a weapon. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, is believed to have used at least one fully automatic weapon – weapons that are heavily restricted under U.S. federal law.

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There were 29 such shootings (four or more fatalities in a public place, according to the FBI’s official definition) in the U.S. during the eight years of the Obama administration; 26 in Europe. The rate at which people are killed is virtually the same in the European Union as in the United States.

Again, many of the facts about what happened in Las Vegas remain unknown at the moment, including exactly what type of firearm the gunman used. But one sad fact that everyone calling for gun control needs to consider is that, as Europe has shown, you can have all the gun control laws you want and you still won’t be able to stop horrors like this from happening.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/02/gun-control-in-europe-is-almost-total-it-hasnt-stopped-mass-shooting-attacks-like-las-vegas.html

[Smokin Joe]

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[DB]

Just take Mexico...

It is very difficult for a private citizen to own and carry a gun after they changed their constitution.

As a result Mexican citizens are being murdered at rate that exceeds many countries that are officially in a state of war.

Just ask Venezuelans if they wish they still had the right to arm themselves as they starve to death...

Leftist have no clue how the real world works.

[goatprairie]

Ban machine guns for the average citizen? Sure.  But they banned them in France as well.  That didn't stop terrorists from getting their hands on them and massacring dozens of people in Paris a few years ago.
You might as well ban people from using vehicles to run into crowds...except, in the absence of guns,  terrorists already do that to large and evil effect. How do you stop people intent on killing other people and who do not care if they die from doing so? The unfortunate answer is that many times you can't.
In short, leftists think they can ban people from doing evil things....they can't.  The only thing to do is try and be prepared for somebody else trying to do evil on you and your loved ones.