The additional context - he doesn’t like that it’s a fact of life, but ofc thinks more security/guns in school is the answer. Hmm.
The additional context - he doesn’t like that it’s a fact of life, but ofc thinks more security/guns in school is the answer. Hmm.
There’s a lot of historical reasons why we can’t just snap our fingers and magically eliminate gun posession in the US, plus an incredibly small population of people living out in the wilder spaces of the US who have legitimate need for them in terms of protection of themselves and farm animals from wildlife.
The main issue though is that the cat has been out of the bag for so long, there’s not really any way to claw guns back from the public’s hands without costly military intervention on our own soil, which is political suicide.
We could apply our creativity to find loads of ways to meaningfully chip away at the problem.
If we valued kids’ lives more than our little gun cult.
Which we obviously don’t because we sit here and throw up our hands like this instead of thinking of ways it could happen. And what’s worse, we try to pretend that that’s being reasonable.
Didn’t say it was reasonable to give up and not try. Just was commenting on the complexity of the problem, as there are a lot of people that act like there’s some quick “pull off the bandaid” solution that everyone is too stupid to just do.
There are a lot of steps forward we should be doing that don’t require a lot of creativity either.
Laws on what is banned and isn’t need to be based on quantifiable statistics of the gun’s capabilities rather than… whatever the fuck you want to call the current rules. There are firearms with wooden stocks that are 100% legal for civilian ownership that are far more deadly (in terms of shots per minute) than “scarier looking” firearms with black plastic/polycarbonate furniture that are banned from civilian ownership. Can’t remember the specific models but they both fire the same caliber rounds.
Close the obvious loopholes. Ensure enough funding to regulatory orgs that guns being passed on when a family member dies or goes into elder care are actually tracked. I know my brother in law didn’t fuck around when it came to my father in law’s guns, but it’s not like anyone was checking.
Forget about political suicide. Confiscating every gun would instantly result in war
Everyone likes to make fun of Meal Team Six but there’s a looootttt of trained gun owners with arsenals looking for a reason to shoot