What do you do? Serious question. War on guns like the war on drugs?
It very well may be. I don’t know. It rarely if ever happens elsewhere. I read it’s the 47th mass shooting in the US this year and we’ve only had 45 days so far.
It’s either a “people problem” or a “gun problem”
If it’s a people problem then what do we do? We already have laws. We already incarcerate more people than anywhere else in the world. You can’t force people to see a therapist if we want to say it’s a mental health problem, which some instances do seem to be. Some say not enough people believe in God and religion but plenty of other places with less belief don’t have this problem.
Now as for the gun problem the US has a unique problem that most other countries don’t which is size and significant power in states rights. It becomes more difficult to just ban guns than other places (though Australia has done it successfully). A lot of countries have successfully done it, but I can see it being very difficult here.
There should be more stringent policies. Gun people don’t like it and it infringes on their rights and I understand that but I also don’t care. I’d rather a child get home from school tomorrow than care about that persons feelings. But there should be tougher policies, to own one, to keep them, the types citizens can own, how many can be owned, etc. I say this knowing that in several mass shootings that guns have been owned lawfully, that’s the more stringent policy on keeping them, and I’d say if you have them in your home then it’s not just the gun owner that is scrutinized. There is a middle ground somewhere that I do believe can be successful, but a big part of this country’s problem over the last decade and a half is that there is no middle anymore, or at least it’s shrunk. So nobody will give a little to get some. It’s nonexistent. The middle is a wasteland.
A good guy in a lot of these situations has rarely won over a bad guy with one(Today and Uvalde) A good guy with a gun hasn’t ever stopped one from happening though I will admit they have finished some (most recent the outlet mall shooting and the elementary church school in Nashville). But they still happened. Lives were still lost. We should not be ok with people going out in public or to school or work and dying. Percentages don’t matter here, this shouldn’t happen.
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