Every time someone gets killed, everyone attacks gun laws, the 2nd amendment, blah blah blah. That's not the problem.
The issue and the main reason why shyt will never change even if they do pass stricter laws is the production of weapons in the first place. There are too many guns in circulation and that's not including the new ones that get manufactured all the time. The first thing that needs to be done is to eliminate production of new guns, but we know that will never happen. Too much money involved. And quite honestly there are enough guns in circulation right now to last a few generations. Capitalism always wins. And even if you do stop production, it will increase the value of the ones already in circulation. Then you will have guns coming in through Mexico.
So basically, there is no solution. People kill people, not guns. We are so disconnected as a society and so desensitized to violence that its just part of our culture. Our way of life. People just need to be aware of their surroundings more.
THANK YOU. The possible gun control laws that are being mentioned will help extremely little, if at all. Yes universal background checks does make sense, but most of these guys doing the mass killings would have passed them. Or in the case of the Sandy Hook massacre, it wasn't even his guns. And for the regular everyday criminals, they are not buying their guns from stores. They get them from the black market.
Smaller capacity magazines? Whooo big deal. So the shooter has to reload an extra time or two. How long does it take to reload a semi-automatic weapon? 1.5 seconds?
The
ONLY solution is the drastic reduction of the manufacture of
ALL guns which is
NEVER going to happen for several reasons, including gun nuts(and not just the NRA), money, and jobs. Like other industries, Conservatives will argue that the elimination of gun manufacturing will eliminate thousands of jobs, similar to their argument against proposed regulations on the oil and coal industries in reference to climate change.
And there are already more than 300,000,000 guns in this country. More guns than there are cars. Government gonna run up in citizens cribs and start taking their guns? I would love to see that play out.
Unfortunately I think the gun issue in America is already a lost cause.