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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm interested in options to reduce mass violence that don't go down the gun elimination road, because those are more likely to happen (and thus save lives). Stuff like mental health treatment, figuring out how to keep guns away from dangerous people, or allowing greater defense.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
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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Roko.Eth
@RokoMijic
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@Aella_Girl
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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briancarroll
@briancarroll
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@Aella_Girl
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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Chris Thomas
@_cjt_
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@Aella_Girl
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.
Tanner C 🇺🇦✊
@Shoes4Sixpence
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@Aella_Girl
Close the gun show loophole. Which I believe is still a thing. You could also make secondhand sale of firearms require going to a DMVesq government building so sales are properly recorded.
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