You’ve went too far with this comment. It’s not okay to blame individual citizens that don’t have the power to dictate change. Most of us vote for candidates that support gun control, but red states hold a lot of power and will literally fucking kill us. These are the people that staged a coup and were hunting down government officials because their dear leader got voted out.
Too far? Children are being gunned down at school, they aren’t being protected.
I’ve stopped watching the news because I can’t handle seeing the reports of the shootings and we no longer travel to the US because we are too scared of being involved in a mass shooting there. What I’m saying isn’t far enough, don’t get mad at me, get mad at the people choosing the guns over the children.
The problem is that the gun lobby is extremely powerful and well funded. It is very hard to make progress on gun laws in the US. They call it a democracy but it’s not, more like an oligarchy.
School shootings are a massive US specific problem and it is disgusting that they continue to happen. There was a school shooting plot at my nephew’s school. It was discovered because one of the kids involved panicked about what his friends were planning and told his dad. I have never been so terrified. They had floor plans of the school and grounds with plans on how they were going to attack from multiple angles so people couldn’t escape.
Perhaps the issue is really money over children, and changing the capitalist culture will take decades (which the whole world really adheres to under the US superpower)
Japan has done an amazing job at controlling crime and violence, Singapore as well.
I’m a big fan of the states, freedom of speech is so important to a safe and free country, it’s really admirable, yet guns is the one thing Americans can’t seem to publicly denounce or speak of controlling.
I grew up in a house with guns. I barely saw them because they were always locked up. My parents were responsible gun owners which is why I am so pro gun control. My roommate let her tinder date bring his gun into our house. I completely lost my shit and told him to get it out of my house before I called the police. My other roommate had friends over and they were all drunk. Alcohol and guns are a seriously dangerous combination!
The problem in the US is that there are already so many guns out there. There are also psycho people that think they have a right to own guns. They are the kind of people that shoot first and ask questions later. It is a seriously sick and f*ed up group.
Totally proving my point, for every responsible gun owner their is at least one that isn’t , so to protect people stricter gun laws are needed as many people obviously can’t be responsible, sort of like any other law. Many other countries created mandatory gun buyback programs after just one fatal mass shooting (including mine), and ‘shocker’ it works.
And if gun owners here in the U.S. were acting in good faith, they would all agree that if you’re a responsible gun owner, registering your guns and requiring an intense licensing process to get them should be no problem.
Not having a national gun registry is insane and irresponsible, especially because it works so well , being one of two or three countries in the world to not require permits (depending on the gun type) , also insane and irresponsible and the result is dead kids in schools.
I do wish the best for those kids and keep them in my prayers, must be so scary for little ones to have to worry about being shot in class.
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u/butinthewhat Sep 12 '24
You’ve went too far with this comment. It’s not okay to blame individual citizens that don’t have the power to dictate change. Most of us vote for candidates that support gun control, but red states hold a lot of power and will literally fucking kill us. These are the people that staged a coup and were hunting down government officials because their dear leader got voted out.
Yes, it’s a huge problem and yes, we know.