Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020

Do Americans love guns more than their children?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61192975
It appears so

The last house I was in stateside the guy, a filipino, has 15 guns including a fantastic machine pistol, the genie is out of the bottle regarding guns on this side of the pond, there's no going back at all.

Private gun collection stateside.

Total madness

I once went with a friend to go shooting in Pennsylvania with about 20 Baltimore cops.
It was basically a couple of days target practice whilst drinking and chatting in the evenings.

They had all put their weapons on top of a metal cabinet out of the way.
As we were standing around a large wheel rim in the night time drinking beer, there was a loud bang - one of the toddlers had found a bullet that had rolled off the metal cabinet onto the floor and threw it into the fire.
No-one knew what happened to the bullet in the moment of the bang and anyone could have been hurt in that moment.
https://www.technology.org/2019/07/...d-into-fire-not-what-you-think-it-does-video/

These men and women were supposed to be responsible cops
So many times on the news and in the newspapers were stories of children shooting members of their own families.

I love it, if I lived south of the border I would have a really nice collection, I love being on a range, gun talk, wiping them down, the precision, the smell of cordite, look at this private collection

Even here, a couple of aisles down from the fruit and veg section.....

4300 child deaths in 2020 in the States due to firearms, watching a report on it now.

I look at the situation with guns in the US and I still scratch my head wondering why are there so many guns available.

And the Philippines, Davao lock'N, Load.

Just been into a gun store to look at the latest compound bows, 6 aisles of ammunition.

I got talking to a local who was part of a SWAT team, he invited me to go to the range with him and fire a few of his weapons but I declined saying my eye sight was poor.

Should have just done what the typical pinoy copper does, spray and pray (that one hits the target).

What are you going to do with 15 guns?? One or two should be sufficient for self defense, but 15????

Got to be honest, in a good American gunshop I could easily buy 30 weapons without blinking, collecting them would be addictive, some blokes are petrol heads, some like craft beers, some even like making tiktok videos, some like guns.

The shooter live-streamed the killing spree.
https://amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject..../buffalo-supermarket-mass-shooting/index.html

202 multiple victim shootings in the States so far this year, on average 10 a week.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours

There's your answer right there.
People who like guns need to give their heads a wobble

Nah, I like guns, the genie is out the bottle with weapons in the good old U S of A, people can pontificate, debate, even argue (been a bit of that on here lately ) but the corner has been turned, gun crime isn't going away.

School shooting a few hours ago.
https://www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproj...ntary-school-shooting-robb-elementary-uvalde/