Man that would be awesome. I'm 15 years away from 45, and my parents are in their 60s and are chronic alcoholics. If they both die in 15 years then I'll definitely liquidate their assets, pay off my house, and buy a rental property or two and retire by age 45. By all means, please drop housing prices.

Maybe this is hard for you to understand, but you can 3D print firearm receivers on your kitchen counter with a $300 printer and a few dollars worth of material. This isn't the 1800s anymore when making a gun yourself meant you had to be named John Moses Browning and have a full machine shop just to make single shot and lever action rifles. Hell a German guy came up with a semi-automatic carbine design that doesn't require any parts you can't get from Home Depot. I would say it's way easier to make your own gun than to make your own cocaine and heroin, but no amount of legislation has made cocaine and heroin go away.

That strategy hasn't worked for drugs and it didn't work for alcohol during Prohibition.

Me thinks that the 2 gang members involved in this shooting don't give a damn if they are legally allowed to own guns.

Turn the tide against what, gangbangers and career criminals?

Not sure why you are mentioning Boulder and Colorado Springs. Boulder doesn't have a high violent crime rate, but its property crime rate is 50% higher than thebrest of the country and it's not surprising that violent crime will happen there. Colorado Springs has a high property crime rate, but it also has a very high violent crime rate, so no shit you have a lot of shootings there. Colorado Springs has a violent crime rate 50% higher than the rest of the country combined, so how you count that as being evidence that shootings happen everywhere is beyond me. No, shootings don't happen everywhere, they happen in places with lots of property crime and violent crime, and Colorado Springs has both of those.

As far as Chicago, go look at a map of the shootings and see what areas they happen in. Those shootings don't happen in the areas with low crime rates.

I live in the country near a small town of 12,000 where the only crime issues are drugs and bad checks. A week ago there was a homicide here that was ruled as a self-defense shooting, and it was huge news because no homicide had happened in the county in a couple years. Shootings are not a problem here because we don't have many people, don't have many breaking and entering or robbery crimes, and we don't have many assaults either. No mass shooting has ever happened in my county as far back as anyone has kept data. Again, shootings do not happen everywhere, they happen in highly populated areas that also have high crime rates. You can claim that Boulder and Colorado Springs are quiet, rich cities all you want but the stats say that lots of crime happens there.

No, these things do not happen everywhere, it's actually rather easy to see exactly where they happen. All those Chicago shootings only happen in certain areas. Saint Louis' shootings happen in very specific areas too.

The stats in that article are nuts when it breaks it down by ethnicity and sex, especially when you compare black males to Hispanic or white females. Being a young black male child in the US is like being a refugee in Yemen, can't imagine what those neighborhoods look like.

It's very easy to buy a car because you do not need to be licensed, insured, or much of anything just to own a car. A blind 14 year old can drive a car around on private land all they want.

That is only true if you count 18b and 19 year old adults as children.

Um, statistics? Whether you want to ascribe a racial or socioeconomic reason, predominantly black neighborhoods tend to have higher crime rates and denying that is silly. Not to say that no white areas can be high crime, but when you look at a macro scale that is what you see.

When someone is deemed too dangerous to be free before their trial, bail is denied. Guess what you can't do while you are sitting in jail? Buy a gun. If you aren't considered too dangerous to be free, you get bail. I don't understand how someone can be deemed too dangerous to have a gun but we will let them walk free and buy all the knives, swords, daggers, black powder revolvers, piano wire, etc. they want. You can be out on bail or be a convicted killer who got let loose and be able to put together a murder kit, minus the smokeless powder firearm. Maybe a person too dangerous to own a gun is also too dangerous to ever walk the streets again.