I think we should lock up violent people much longer so the risk vs reward is much worse for violent behavior across the board.

Gun regulations take forever to have an impact and you mostly just kind of punish a bunch of people who weren't going to commit crimes trying to catch the few who might. It's a bit of a sucky strategy with low pay off that causes a lot of pushback. Accountability sounds great, but that's kind of like thinking car insurance would make car accidents rare because you're accountable for your driving. It's easy to say, but how do you make people accountable in a way that changes their behavior BEFORE they do something stupid? This requires them to like learn stuff.. which means low probability of success and very long adoption time to get results.

I'm not against the idea so much as I don't think it will work fast enough to notice much impact, so the investment of effort tends to not produce much result.

I'd rather replace all the CCTV with smart cameras that tie into rapid respnse police forces. So basically if you fuck around in public there is always a camera that can detect violent behavior or sounds and get the police there, probably eventually with a drone because that's the fastest.

Camera/mic/call for public violence and a drone gets there in like 3 minutes. If that's how it worked a lot less people would be willing to commit crime in public because a police drone would be on them recording them, shining lights on them so fast they have to stay in the shadows more... which means crime is harder to commit.

We are going to get smart camera and more camera anyway so I don't see any real intrusion of privacy issue, just public cameras that automate reporting crime and rapid response to get police there so fast it basically scares criminals how fast they can show up. Once that is setup it would be a major deterrent for most crime and not cost much at all AND it works on most crime vs just gun crimes.