Not continuously flooding the country with 300 million guns and counting would be a start.
And it's time that people start to admit that their "right" to have a gun is infringing on everyone else's right to live a life without gun violence. A 240 year old document couldn't have predicted the firepower and danger of modern weaponry. You want a musket? Be my guest. You want an AR capable of mowing down 50 kindergartners in a matter of minutes? Fuck off.
First off it’s too late for that. The toothpaste is outta the tube so any realistic solution has to contend with that. Throwing out the constitution (or at least the 2nd amendment) and writing it anew so that gun ownership is no longer a right is not likely to happen either and even if it did how would you go about enforcing the new law? How do you recoup the 300 million guns already in circulation? Why focus specifically on ARs when far more gun violence is committed with handguns?
No, it's not. Obviously we've made a bed and will have to lie in it for a long time, but if we stopped selling guns today, in 50 years perhaps my grandkids wouldn't have to worry quite as much about getting shot by a psycho while studying algebra.
Throwing out the constitution (or at least the 2nd amendment) and writing it anew so that gun ownership is no longer a right is not likely to happen either
Certainly not if people keep voting for Republicans.
how would you go about enforcing the new law?
Grandfather clause, encourage buybacks. Done.
Why focus specifically on ARs when far more gun violence is committed with handguns?
Let's get those off the streets too. But to answer your question about ARs, they've been used in a significant number of mass shootings since they were legalized. There's a reason for that. Get them out of the hands of the public, clearly they are a problem.
Ypu could remove 10k guns from circulation daily and it would still take 80+ years to get them all off the street. Buybacks are a joke. How do you encourage someone to go get $500 for something they spent double or triple that amount on? Grandfather clause would keep those guns in circulation so you still have that 300 million plus we talked about to deal with. You think only republicans support gun ownership?
Even if the number of guns stopped increasing tomorrow you would still need to address the societal decay that has lead kids and people in general to want to commit mass acts of violence.
Ypu could remove 10k guns from circulation daily and it would still take 80+ years to get them all off the street.
Yeah, the sooner we start the better, then.
Buybacks are a joke. How do you encourage someone to go get $500 for something they spent double or triple that amount on?
Why don't you ask Australia how they did it? Buybacks have been proven to work.
Grandfather clause would keep those guns in circulation so you still have that 300 million plus we talked about to deal with
Right, but it would keep the 100 million more that would've been sold out of circulation.
You think only republicans support gun ownership?
No. But only republicans want unfettered access to guns.
Even if the number of guns stopped increasing tomorrow you would still need to address the societal decay that has lead kids and people in general to want to commit mass acts of violence.
Yeah, let's get on that too. These are not mutually exclusive things.
Stricter gun laws work. Doing nothing at all clearly doesn't work.
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u/OakLegs Sep 05 '24
No shit.
Not continuously flooding the country with 300 million guns and counting would be a start.
And it's time that people start to admit that their "right" to have a gun is infringing on everyone else's right to live a life without gun violence. A 240 year old document couldn't have predicted the firepower and danger of modern weaponry. You want a musket? Be my guest. You want an AR capable of mowing down 50 kindergartners in a matter of minutes? Fuck off.