2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting: 59 dead, 527 injured

And heroin can be used as an effective pain killer.
The "guns for protection" argument has been thoroughly debunked. A US study showed that you are 4 times as likely to be shot if you keep a gun in the house than if you don't. Keeping guns actually puta your family at more risk!

So it is only reasonable to make sure that all these "sick people" (remember that there about 30,000 gun deaths in the US each year) don't have easy access to specially designed killing machines. Also worth bearing in mind that it is often difficult to predict or detect mental health issues before they impact on people's lives - especially as many of the most at-risk population may soon have no health cover!

I understand fairly well having spent most of my gap year there.

The thing that many people seem to misunderstand when they say that the constitution in immutable is that it isn't. And do you know how we know that it can be amended?
Yes, you've got it...the amendments!
There is absolutely no reason whay the 2nd Amendment can't be removed or itself amended.

Only so some people.
To others they represent what they hate most about their country. I know because they've told me!

It is only the gun lobby that is preventing change. Many people and politicians would gladly strengthen controls today.

I don't see what's wrong with that. It is the situation in most developed countries and they all have lower rates of homicide by firearm than the US does now, despite the millions of armed civilians preventing the criminals from committing any crime!

Where do you think criminals get most of their guns from?
Yes, they buy them legally, they buy them from someone else who obtained them legall, or they steal them from someone who has bought them legally. Criminals don't manufacture guns. They all originate from a legal source!
Taking guns out of circulation and restricting access to them makes it harder for criminals to get them. It really is that simple.

I've said this before. Talking to pro-gun supporters is like talking to religionists. There is no reason or logic behing their arguments, just assertion and belief.

I’m not disputing any evidence. I’m saying you haven’t provided any evidence that shows a causal link between gun ownership and likelihood of being a homicide victim, by gun, in your home. Have you forgotten the ‘correlation does not imply causation’ phrase?

Surely you jest. In your scenario, ALL the guns obtained by criminals were obtained legally one step back. Let me extend a bit of education: Nearly all criminals are convicted felons. That is usually the definition of "criminal". As such, they are PROHIBITED FROM TOUCHING FIREARMS!! That is the current law. That means they cannot BUY them! They get their weapons the same way they get their illegal drugs - they buy them down in an alley - often from their drug dealer. Many weapons in the US are smuggled in, just like they are in the Uk. Others are stolen [you DID get that one right]. Some are stolen from the military. In order to eliminate these weapons, you must disarm the military. Perhaps they can throw flowers at ISIS next time they are attacked. That might work. According to Fed statistics, gun owners use their weapons to prevent crime about 2.5 million times per year. Most of these occasions result in no shots fired.

In the Uk, 59% of burglaries are "hot" burglaries [committed when the residence is occupied]. In the US, only 13% are hot burglaries. Of individuals shot during the commission of a crime: 71% had prior arrest records, 64% had been convicted of a crime. Each had an average of 11 prior arrests. 63% of crime victims had a crime history, 73% knew their assailants.

In D.C. [which essentially prohibits private ownership of guns], the murder rate is 56.9 per 100,000. Just across the Potomac river, in Arlington, Virginia, where handgun ownership IS permitted, the murder rate is 1.6 per 100,000.

Is there anything other than a gun that can cause a shooting fatality?

Every homicide by firearm has been directly caused by a gun. To claim that there is no connection between firearms deaths and firearms is one of the most extreme cases of denying reality that I have come across!

Likewise, insisting that reducing the availability of guns will not reduce the number of firearms deaths is simply denying the evidence of every case where gun controls have been introduced.

I suppose that you would claim that owning a car is not a contributary factor in the likelihood of dying in a car crash, and the fact that people who never travel in cars are unlikely in a car crash is pure coincidence.

If you can show a case where increased gun control has led to an increase in gun deaths in the general public, I will be very surprised.