Moderator Note
Breaking news threads are not the appropriate place to have a gun control debate. If you want to “talk about the problem”, you are not being silenced. You are free to do so, just not in a breaking news thread. Feel free to start a new thread in a more appropriate forum (Great Debates or the Pit, most likely), and also feel free to link back to this thread if you would like.
From the sticky at the top of MPSIMS:
If you wish to discuss the moderation further, take it to ATMB.