Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Which means the government has very little real idea where these firearms are even located. I’m running for Congress to actually start us down the path of fixing what ails our nation. I don’t want to make people *feel* better, but actually make people better. 4/

A huge part of this requires that we realize that laws are not magical. Another huge part is about concentrating on legislation that will actually help people - as many people as possible, as significantly as possible. Example: Universal healthcare must be a top priority. 5/

If we don’t know where these 320 million firearms are, even if we collectively decided as a society to round *all* of them up and destroy them, actually *doing* that is *impossible*. We should ban bump-stocks, but also understand they’re already out there, and will be. 6/

We should have universal background checks, but in a society without universal healthcare, it’s unlikely we’ll stop many people with mental-health issues from buying guns *legally* because you need a *diagnosis* which costs a lot of money. 7/

And with this many unregistered guns out there, the bigger problem becomes our inability to stop sick people from obtaining these weapons through *illegal* means. We have 98,000 public schools. Doing the math, that’s a minimum of 3,265 *unregistered* guns *per school*. 8/

I’m sorry, but the numbers are the numbers, & they indicate that gun laws will *not* prevent these things from happening. But there *are* things we *can* do to prevent school shootings, & other mass shootings. Universal (inc. mental) healthcare is a great start. 9/

And I believe we can take a page out of what’s working in commercial flight, where Air Marshals fly while armed, and allow faculty to choose to go through the same background checks and training as Air Marshals, adjusted for schools, then carry concealed. School Marshals. 10/

Because these children are *entitled* to protection from these sick people. And frankly, I believe that many school shootings will be prevented outright just by allowing School Marshals to become reality, even if there aren’t any on most campuses. 11/