Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Your love was murdered by a murderer. And I’m so sorry to hear that. I can’t imagine the pain of living through something like that. But you should know the rate of gun homicides peaked in 1993.

It shouldn’t be too much to ask that we DO SOMETHING. Try something. Throw a possible solution at the wall and see if it sticks. If it doesn’t throw another. Keep throwing until something finally for God’s sake stops the killing—or at least slows it.

“Do something” is only logical if there’s evidence that specific “something” would actually help. Banning *anything* for which there is a market doesn’t work. Drugs, alcohol, immigration, gambling, prostitution, or guns. Same.

There *is* evidence that there are things we can do to change this. Let’s try those things. How many have to die because the framers of the Constitution never dreamed there would someday be guns that can fire 45 rounds per minute?

That’s not why people are dying. To put this in perspective since you’ll likely cite Australia next: Australia bought back about 600,000 guns, all of which were registered beforehand. We have at minimum 350 million *unregistered* guns. That’s 583 times the number, unregistered.

I said nothing about Australia and had no plans to. I mentioned the enormous difference between guns of the Revolutionary War era and guns of today. I also mentioned fine, let’s change our socioeconomics. I’m open to any reasonable strategy. I’m not open to doing nothing.

Changing our culture, as we did with drunk driving, is also worth trying. What if shooting someone, except for self defense, became as shameful as drunk driving? Suppose nobody wanted to be the asshole who murdered children? Let’s make it happen.