Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

Not that simple. The right to bear arms is part of the basic law in the USA. Any 5 grade history student knows that. Constitutional Amendments like the #1- #5 are more important that the biblical top 10 to most citizens of the USA.

Like I said it is cultural. Maybe, in Oz you have different laws of guarantees of freedoms (or rights). Again, if you were a 5th grade history student you would know what it takes to change the US Constitution -- to repeal an amendment.

Look it up ...

The US Supreme Court has made numerous decisions on the restrictions of lawfully owned firearms. I think we accept it as the price we pay for the right to bear arms. FYI, people going postal and shooting the place up is a phenomena that began in the 1980s and it is parallel to the general economic decline and inequity that an armed population faces here.

Face it, if that shooter was not a despondent postal nut-case, he committed suicide rather than be taken alive BTW, no one would have died. Cure the disease and not treat the symptoms while the patent dies