How do we prevent all these shootings, how can we prevent them in the future?

Question

What do we have to do to stop future people from just going in some place and shooting at everyone they see? Is our government responsible for causing people to do this? Does our government help people enough? What do you think?

Answer 1

Ummmm...well it's really hard to shoot someone if you don't have a gun....soooooooo.....maybe you should start to think about taking guns off people....now i know that's a scary thought in the US....but so is having your brains blown out by a smith and wesson. The right to carry arms in America was introduced when bears and Indians were waiting in the woods to rip your settler guts out....that doesn't apply now...get rid of the guns and gun related deaths will fall.

Answer 2

I don't think we can stop it. We rarely can know what goes on inside those that refuse to interact well with others, or seek help. The most disturbed of our society will rarely realize they have a problem, much less admit it and seek help.

I also don't see how the government could be blamed for this one. We seem to tend to do that more than we should (you can blame them for the war, but not these shootings).

I think the only way we are going to be able to avoid these in the future is to train education professionals to recognize possible problems and to take them seriously. In the VT incident, one professional recognized the problem, but couldn't force Cho to get the help he needed.

Unfortunately, some people are just time bombs looking for places to go off. Most only take themselves out, but some like to leave a mark before they end their own lives. We've become a society that craves notoriety, and we will go to terrible lengths sometimes to get it. I don't think we'll ever forget Cho, and that was the biggest part of his goal in my humble opinion.

Answer 3

Everyone's going to give you all sorts of factors but I'm going to cut it short and tell you the real solution. Gun control.
There is NO reason for anyone to have a gun anymore.
People who still hunt for food do so with bows and arrows. In developed nations, people go hunting on a full stomach.
In my country, you don't get shoot-outs because nobody (other than the people in law enforcement) has guns.
This will not be the last time we all hear about a shoot-out. I can assure you there'll be bigger crazier ones in the future as each crazed psycopath tries to outdo the one before. It's not going to end until your government changes the law, until then, everything else they try to do is just a bad patch job.

Answer 4

There is no way that this will stop. The government is not responsible for the shootings. The persons who do the shooting are responsible.

If anyone is determined to kill a lot of people, there are no amount of gun laws that will stop it. Quite simply, put it is the culture, and deficiencies in it, and a breakdown in personal responsibility that have created this climate.

Shootings like the Virginia Tech are a recent phenomenon of the past several decades. Before the 1960's no one heard of a man just killing people like that. Gun laws were less strict then, so why the change?

Also, if it is the availability of guns that somehow causes this, then why doesn't it happen in Switzerland. In Switzerland, men are actually required by law to own a gun. After being discharged from the army (all young men are required to drafted), they given a gun to keep at home. Women are encouraged to own a gun, though not required.

There are a few reasons, but just having the guns isn't the issue. If it were, they'd all be dead, since they have one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world.

But, some reasons why they don't have these shootings owes to a relative homogeneity--all are pretty much Swiss by birth and all have their families go back several generations. There are no real differences between the various groups in the nation. There is no real immigration. There is no real poverty.

Contrast that with America, which is a welcoming society to all peoples--the Melting Pot, and all. America has different groups in different socioeconomic circumstances. Thus, you have greater rates of poverty in New Orleans than you do in Houston. You also have greater rates of crime in New Orleans than almost any other major American city. Why is this?

With regard to the immigration policy, being different will inevitably cause some discord. In the case of the Virginia Tech killer, it seems to have contributed a great deal, although to blame that entirely is to insult the vast majority of immigrants who do not resort to such horrendous violence.

And being different is something that affects a lot of other people. They aren't all going around killing people.

But, the point being made is that in some societies, there are simply greater stressors than in others. However, there is no certain way to alleviate these stressors without taking on some degree of personal responsibility.

Just getting rid of guns, which will never happen unless you want to overturn the Second Amendment, which won't happen at all, won't change that.

The Virginia Tech killer was deeply disturbed. I can conceive of him just blowing the school up, if he didn't have a gun. But, we won't know because he did have a gun.

So, gun laws wouldn't have changed much of anything.

The real weapon was the killer himself.

In a nation as vast as ours, with all of what makes us America, and the simple changing of the culture, often negatively, changing the gun laws won't change much.

It's easy for someone to say that in Australia, no offense intended, that their not having these sorts of incidents is due to the strict gun laws. I don't agree. Australia has 20 million people. New York City alone has 8 million. Australia is a largely homogenous nation, almost entirely white. Compare that to the USA which is majority white, but has far more of other groups than does Australia. That will create conflict.

Australia is a great place, but it simply doesn't compare to the complexity involved with the makeup of the USA. This is not to be disparaged. After all, who wants to have the problems inherent in our society. But, the problems in our society are also indicative of what is good with our society as well.

In any case, it is unreasonable to say that a nation of 20 million, largely homogenous, nation of not disparate wealth, and their gun laws is comparable to one of 300 million, very non-homogenous nation.

They just aren't the same.

Answer 5

Banning guns will not stop it. Countries where guns are banned still have shootings. If someone wants a gun, they will get a gun. Perhaps, stopping the problem starts at home, with the parents. The passive babysitter doesn't teach good values, that should be the job of the parent.

Answer 6

In order to prevent this, we need to implement some form of gun control, although it is a constitutional right "To bear arms." If guns are available, then people will use them for crimes... You can make it difficult to get a gun, they will find a way to aquire one. There are so many already out "on the streets.", that at this point there isn't anything that can really be done than to ban them altogether. But many Americans are not going to let that happen, they beleive that "guns don't kill people, people kill people", I believe that statement is utterly ridiculous, a hand gun was made for one purpose, to shoot somebody, not for hunting not for anything other than to kill another person. But Americans aren't ready to give up their right to own one.... So I suggest you invest in a bullet-proof vest.

Answer 7

aparently some morron gun dealer said after the v-tech incedent that if the teacher had a gun this would have been avodible

WTF

he would still be dead americans are so stupid and wreklass when it comes to most thing why even have the guns if you took guns away from one state for a year there problems would go down by atleast 1/5

why cant americans understand guns cause problems

take the uk no one has a gun and the only guncrime turns out to be a replica gun or the mafia

Answer 8

Family. Family is the answer. Family values and bonds are the pedestal for any society. These values and ties have diminished in our society. We are jeopardizing our future as a society by making kindergartens, schools and TV stations raise our children. The role of the Father and Mother have diminished from being the main care-giver to merely a biological relative who is much more interested in his/her career. Neither religion nor friends can compensate for Family. To rebuild our culture to its normal status we will have to distinguish between what is important and what is not. Mothers and Fathers should raise their children and create families rather than careers and money. we will have to shift our focus at what is really important

Answer 9

Stronger and better mental health care. Stricter laws on obtaining guns. The government offers little or no help to the mentally ill.

Answer 10

You can't defend yourself from Mad people ...if that is there intention ...then they will do it.

try to look for warning signs is all we can do.

Look at the troops in Iraq.... they have the very best equipment and technology available to them ....yet they are victims of suicide car bombers ...you can't defend against them.

Governments can only prevent so much. New gun laws won't solve the problem .

Here in Canada we have Gun control laws much stricter than the USA ... Yet we still manage to smuggle guns into the country

Money will buy you any gun you want .... Legal or otherwise !