Ok_Salamander_1633
Ok_Salamander_1633 t1_jdyqk9w wrote
Reply to comment by Bitmush- in Cops at kickapoo by doctorbaloney4204
Guns have been around since the beginning of this country. Guns are not the problem, and taking guns away, is not only not the solution, it is not possible.
You want to "Do Something!"? Get your kids off of TikTok and whatever other toxic social media they are using this week, and get them onto a ball field, or a hiking trail. Get them mental health help if they need it, and they probably do after the last 3 years. Stop encouraging more division (like you literally did in your comment) by blaming "one half of this country" for a problem.
We don't have a gun problem, we have a society problem.
Ok_Salamander_1633 t1_je0c2ch wrote
Reply to comment by Resident-Log6503 in Cops at kickapoo by doctorbaloney4204
OK … so let me ask you a few “simple” questions.
We have roughly the same number of guns, per capita, now that we had in the 1950’s. Why is gun violence so much more prevalent now than it was then?
How ‘exactly’ would you get rid of the guns? Even if you could get past the legal and constitutional issues, you still have somewhere around 400 million guns in America. How are you going to round up and take those weapons from 150 million people who are not going to be exactly “happy” about giving them up?
Assuming you still support the rest of the Constitution, just not the 2nd Amendment, to so it legally would require judges to write warrants, and law enforcement to execute searches and seizures. This would either require tens of thousands of additional judges and LEO’s, or it would clog the system for decades.
So end the end, what would this do to help prevent gun violence? It’s very easy to fall into the “Do Something!” mentality when we see tragedy like this. But I have yet to hear a single person than can offer a logical explanation of how any form of sweeping gun control could be carried out, nor can they explain how it actually prevent a bad person from doing bad things.
The simple cliche “if you take away the guns, only criminals will have them” really is true.
We need to fix our broken society. We need to stop hating each other. We need to teach our kids to respect each other, respect the laws, and to value life.