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Originally Posted by Ramrod
So why are Canadians and Swiss relatively immune from this kind of thing in spite of similar levels of gun ownership?
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Probably, in part, the type of weapons and the reasoning behind their ownership - e.g. hunting, former military service etc. and the way in which guns are generally perceived in those countries.
It does seem that a lot of people in the US own guns for very different reasons from that, amongst which is that they just get a buzz out of owning the biggest/best/latest/fastest firing etc. etc. They may not initially have set out to use those weapons in anger but the fact that they do own them always allows that possibility in certain situations when someone goes berserk or descends into mental illness for example.
Nobody needs an automatic rifle for anything legitimate so you have to wonder about the mindset of people like this guy who have an armoury of high powered weapons at hand. Maybe his stockpiling of all those weapons was the first sign of his descent into serious mental illness.
