Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Every life lost, whether by homicide, suicide, or accident, is a tragedy. It’s the loss of a mother, father, son, daughter, brother, or sister to someone, and they’re all tragic. And when these losses are preventable, we should do everything in our power to prevent them. 1/

But rather than “thoughts and prayers” here’s some data, and some ideas how to prevent some of these mass-shootings moving forward: Depending on the source you trust, we have between 325 million and 650 million guns in this country. That’s bad enough. But... 2/

...here’s a list of *all* of the *registered* firearms by state: https://www.statista.com/statistics/215655/number-of-registered-weapons-in-the-us-by-state/#0 … I added all of those numbers up. It came to 4,972,489. So, that leaves a *minimum* of 320 MILLION guns that are not in any way registered with the government. 3/

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/