https://time.com/6186982/philippines-guns-mass-shootings/ One Surprising Theory Why the Philippines Has Very Few Mass Shootings—Despite Easy Access to Lots of Guns Shop assistants pose with various handguns at the Defense and Sporting Arms show at a shopping mall in Manila on July 16, 2009 Mass shootings are a result of a confluence of factors, but at the heart of the problem are guns—of which the Philippines has plenty. Firearms are sold openly in malls, and almost anyone can carry them, even priests and accountants. Fixers can reportedly take care of formalities standing in the way of gun ownership, such as drug and psychological tests, and there are estimated to be some four million firearms in the nation of 110 million people. Hundreds of thousands of weapons are illegally owned. Poverty, corruption, crime, and outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs have left deep social scars. . . Solution To Gun Violence. Let no one assume the nice, non violent appearing person near them is not "packing". Remember a few years ago some would be shooter was taken out by an armed person attending the same church services ? Remember Isla Vista a "Gun Free Zone" until it wasn't ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings The crime is the unlawful discharge, not the owning nor carrying. That is protected by #2. Moi I choose not to own a gun. I oppose license, registration, and permit laws
