Imagine if our government treated gun violence like it does terrorism. The security we’re put through to prevent a dozen deaths a year vs. anyone can walk in anywhere with any type of gun with military size magazines & massacre a dozen in seconds. Gov response? Thoughts & prayers
What's a viable solution? Confiscate 300+ million firearms from people who would fiercely defend their constitutional right to bear them? Serious question; I see no easy solutions here.
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You’re looking in the wrong direction. Don’t look at the guns. Look at hardening the targets.
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One small example; in U.K., among all Home burglaries, somebody is home about 40% of the time. But in the U.S. it’s about 13%. Why, because in the U.S. the person who is at home might be armed.
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I do. Sam Harris once or twice compared gun ownership with a pilot license. Sure, you can get one, but you have to go through a lot of psych assessment and training on safe use before you get it. A serious programme. Easy enough. Not a silver bullet but would save lives.
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Wrong! The Sandy hook killer was known to have issues from the FBI down to local police. The guy that shot up a Church should have never had a gun. He was convicted of abuse.the USAF failed send his records to LEO's. The last guy, was give an pych exam in CA.
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Given threat of 3D printed weapons, probably the only viable approach is regulating ammunition. A high fed tax on bullets. Mandatory backgr checks before buying anything larger than a BB, no gun show exceptions.
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“Constitutional right”. There’s no such thing. Nonsense on stilts. Repeal the 2nd Amendment, which is ultimately an imagined fiction as Harari would put it.
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I know most Americans have been indoctrinated from birth into “respecting the constitution” but it really didn’t come down from Mount Sinai. It was written by a bunch of people who should never have started a revolution in the first place.
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