We don't want to admit who we are.

i live in santa clara, so close to san jose. as i heard the news, i felt uneasy. i hopped right on board for gun control.

When someone I know went to another country, the #1 question he got was "Do you own a gun?" The rest of the world can see how bonkers we are on the issue.

The issue is not that guns kill people. Normal people could own a .50 cal machine gun and never hurt a soul with it. The issue is we have yet to figure out how to let normal people own whatever they want and prevent the psychos from getting firearms.

Once that's solved then we're golden.

I disagree that "normal" people aren't part of the problem. People with mental illness are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators, and far more likely to be victims than "normal" people.

Guns aren't the problem, "normal" is.

Agree 100! There's also the issue of defining normal, and of acknowledging that anyone can make a mistake, or have circumstances push them to a point of making bad decisions.

Shooter in San Diego recently was on record saying he wanted to shoot up his coworkers and had made firearm and ammunition purchases recently. That is not what the vast majority of people on this earth do. That is not normal.

Shooter in San Diego recently was on record saying he wanted to shoot up his coworkers and had made firearm and ammunition purchases recently. That is not what the vast majority of people on this earth do. That is not normal.

Not normal for "individuals," but normal for America.

LOL, 250-odd mass shooters out of a country of 326 million suddenly is a large enough percentage to call them 'normal'???

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2021

That's certainly too many to call them aberrantions.

The ratio of drunk drivers compared to the normal populace is far higher than the ratio of mass shooters to gun owners...Yet drunk driving is not considered the norm. It's stigmatized as an incredibly dangerous crime against society and its laws.

Why should you hold the two to different standards?

Drunk driving is normal.

No it's not. LOL

What percentage of people have to do or be something in order for you to consider it normal?

nor·mal
/ˈnôrməl/
"conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected"

Normal describes any trait found in a majority of a given dataset. I.E it's 'normal' for Swedish people to speak Swedish, but that is distinctly an abnormal and rare language when compared to the entirety of Earth's linguistic diversity.

It's normal for Americans to wear gym clothes in public, but that's much less common in many other areas in the world.

In any given year, the number of drunk drivers in the U.S IS pretty high, but they are largely confined to one data set (young men who binge drink often)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/millions-of-americans-admit-to-drunk-driving-cdc-finds/

That's not indicative of the U.S population at large, therefore it is not normal for the U.S as a whole. It's normal for that segment of U.S society.