All we ever hear from politicians are, "thoughts and prayers".
Is there any line that can be crossed where gun control/removal will ever be seriously discussed?
I naively thought a couple times things might change. Now I'm more cynical and can't see anything changing in the foreseeable future. What will it take or will there never be a change in the US? There was no real changes after Sandy Hook, and sadly there will be none this time either. The debate and the discussions keep going around and around. What I would wish is for the Gun proponents and the politicians to perhaps zoom out a bit and look at the rest of the G20 countries - many of these countries socio-economically similar to the U.S. On comparison of the total number of deaths of all kinds due to guns, in the U.S. is OFF THE CHARTS greater than any of those other countries - it is a complete and total outlier!
I get it that there is this connection to the constitution in the U.S. And there is a large part of the population of the U.S. that says and feels that a society with more guns is a safer society. On the surface, this does have some veneer thin credibility - if I know, everyone has a gun, then I would be a fool to mess with anyone else, right? But the statistics, some of which are in the first paragraph above DO NOT bare this out. Again, the U.S. has a very high rate of crimes of all kinds compared to all other G20 countries - and gun deaths either by a violent criminal act, or any other way, are off-the-charts higher, as noted!
Whereas, in ALL of those other G20 countries there has been a collective decision made, that a safer society is one with massively LESS or in some cases NO guns! I'll note that this is over 3 billion+ people in the world who have chosen to live this way - compared to the 300 million in the U.S. who have chosen a VERY different way to live - and are paying a VERY high price for that! Yet, I have had Americans tell me to my face - that the 3 billion+ of the rest of us, have it all wrong!! So, by that, I am guessing again, that nothing is going to change
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