and the biggest school shooting in Europe during the last decade occurred in that very country. Fact is, people want to deflect from the real issue here; human beings have proven through the ages that they can be incredibly violent creatures. That pre-dates the advent of video games or Hollywood blockbusters. Members of third-world militias aren't inspired to wreak havoc by playing Halo. Giving people easy access to assault weapons and limitless ammunition is beyond ridiculous. It is indefensible, and should not be happening anywhere, let alone a nation as beautiful and rife with achievement and potential as the United States of America.
Folks need to get real, remove their heads from their asses and recognize that this just does not happen anywhere else close to as frequently. I think it's kind of sad that people would rather cling to a selective interpretation of an incredibly old constitutional amendment and seek to defer blame in order to take some of the heat off of the real problem. It is a uniquely American problem, born of woefully inadequate healthcare and a slavish fixation on a spurious reading of a document designed to be fluid in order to keep up with the times, a portion that would have been clarified and refreshed many years ago were it not for cowardice and fists of green paper.
Call of Duty is by far the biggest game in the United Kingdom, the series in general traditionally shifts as many copies in Europe as it does in the United States. The most notorious mass-shooters in Britain over the last twenty years were 52 year old Derek Bird (killed 12 and himself) and Thomas Hamilton, 43 (17 innocents dead before turning a gun on himself). These weren't avid gamers, these were disturbed men who, for one reason or another, slipped between the cracks and perpetuated atrocities.
Unfortunately, the United States has chasms instead of cracks.
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