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Well, that is a somewhat valid argument. We have a large mental health problem.And you haven't had the avalanche of "It's not the guns, it's the mental illness!" diversions either...
Mental illness a common trend among the people who commit massive killing here in the USA.
Ahh yes lets make more gun laws, the shooter broke most of what is currently in the book and any that some might dream up in the future "but we just gotta have more useless laws"...
Plenty of guns still in Australia. In the hands of criminals. Only law abiding citizens handed them in during the amnesty. (Of course.)
Anyway, the answer to the original poster's question is probably to raise children better. It's not the easiest solution and cannot be applied retrospectively to damaged adults but it's the only long term solution that would work.
Plenty of law abiding gun owners in Australia, too. What's your point?Plenty of guns still in Australia. In the hands of criminals. Only law abiding citizens handed them in during the amnesty. (Of course.)
Anyway, the answer to the original poster's question is probably to raise children better. It's not the easiest solution and cannot be applied retrospectively to damaged adults but it's the only long term solution that would work.
Come on, the nice thing about pithy platitudes is no one actually expects anyone to do anything. I mean, could you imagine? Actual change is HARD!And how do we do that?
Well, that is a somewhat valid argument. We have a large mental health problem.
I'm actually in favor of gun rights. I would just like honest discussion from both sides, and for people on my side of the argument to stop saying "we can't talk about this right now", when now is exactly the time to talk about it. Even if all we agree to do is simply mourn our dead and put up with the carnage, it is at least worth talking about an issue taking so many lives in such a brutal fashion.
I thought someone already posted this:And how do we do that?
There's no way to stop the evil - remember as it is written the evil is growing, increasing, every day until Jesus returns.
If there's "no way to stop evil" it seems odd this particular evil only seems to be a problem in one developed country.I think you are wrong, I just saw tonight the earnest discussion around improved hotel security as a solution.
So what's your proposed solution?Ahh yes lets make more gun laws, the shooter broke most of what is currently in the book and any that some might dream up in the future "but we just gotta have more useless laws"...
Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly.
Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States, and I wound up frustrated in a whole new way. We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. The best ideas left standing were narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of potential victims, not broad attempts to limit the lethality of guns.
Opinion | I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise.
Did you notice, by any hope or providence, the evil ones in power in charge of that? (their evil power and intrusion into people's lives increasing as a result of what happened, again). No matter what they do/did, it is increasing evil since the authorities there are notoriously evil. (just by being there)I think you are wrong, I just saw tonight the earnest discussion around improved hotel security as a solution.
Well, the ideal situation for the US (AFAIC) would be to ban private gun ownership.
Not that that would be perfect, but it would go a long way to helping solve the current problem.
However, from discussing guns with folks from the US, I realise that this is unlikely to happen, and I'll just settle for feeling safe living in a country where gun ownership and gun culture isn't widespread.
I don't believe private gun ownership needs be banned. But a few sensible safety regulations and oversights could slash their mortality figures.Well, the ideal situation for the US (AFAIC) would be to ban private gun ownership.
Not that that would be perfect, but it would go a long way to helping solve the current problem.
However, from discussing guns with folks from the US, I realise that this is unlikely to happen, and I'll just settle for feeling safe living in a country where gun ownership and gun culture isn't widespread.
Please RD, not you too!I oppose that solution, unless you can guarantee me safety from a young punk with a knife or a club or even his fists.
If you can't guarantee my safety, you have no moral voice in my efforts to provide for my own safety.
I oppose that solution, unless you can guarantee me safety from a young punk with a knife or a club or even his fists.
If you can't guarantee my safety, you have no moral voice in my efforts to provide for my own safety.
Nobody can guarantee you safety at all. The best you can do is take sensible precautions. But allowing a situation where a "young punk" can legally and affordably get hold of a gun, or multiple guns, is the opposite of guaranteeing you safety.
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