I don't think banning guns in the US is realistic - especially considering the sheer number of guns. There's more guns than people, with nearly 400 million guns in civilian possession, with almost all of them unregistered. It's so deeply baked into our culture.
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In US, gun homicides are negatively correlated with gun ownership; as in, states with higher gun ownership actually have slightly *fewer* gun homicides than states with lower gun ownership. Idk exactly what this means, but it backs my intuition that banning guns isn't the answer.
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Ban gunpowder and mod guns with supersoakers.
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Make shooting great again
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this is a hilarious argument
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Stop doing student shooter drills at schools. It primes impressionable minds, isn't terribly effective, and terrifies people. The appropriate response to terrorism is not to be terrorized.
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Which is why teachers and school faculty should have the option to be armed.
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Just ignoring the problem is probably the most effective response. Look at the numbers: tiny. Spend effort on fixing important problems that kill orders of magnitude more people.
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Also the people who do this are explicitly hoping for a reaction. They even said so....
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Reducing mass violence/shootings/terrorism is probably going to require a different set of solutions from just reducing the number of gun deaths overall. The vast majority of gun homicides are not mass shootings, and most gun deaths are suicides.
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