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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
They should approach this like the public health problem that it is. Gun control, training of proper gun use, lawsuits against gun manufacturers, lawsuits against those who make the public less safe from guns in some way, mental health awareness education, support systems in the community, suicide prevention, advertising against guns and that culture, movies about the actual real life effects of gun violence, TV shows against gun violence, survivors/victims of gun violence touring schools at various levels, anti-bullying campaigns at every level of education and in communities, etc. A holistic approach coming at the problem from every angle and permeating US society.
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IF people are born with certain degrees of altruism AND others with certain degrees of criminality, then "training" and educating is ****ing in the wind. If the scientific method is used to define and to address this problem than we would need to deal with the reality that guns are in the hands of tens of thousands of people and only the ethical and the rule followers would give up their guns. I think the divide on this issue is between the realists and the dreamers, so to speak. It goes further into the fact that some people use guns to make a living; to rob, to intimidate, to protect their drug business, to threaten those who don't pay them, and others own guns out of some need to protect themselves. It can depend on where you are raised and the threat level of society that you have been exposed to all of your life. I think it goes much further than second amendment rights and is integrated into each person's level of safety and security.
At any rate, guns don't stop working. Once sold and owned they will continue to be deadly weapons forever, and getting them out of the hands of people who will hide them is to me not realistic at all.
I don't own a gun and in my whole life I have not been in a situation where someone threatened me or tried to steal things from me. We grew up in an area that did not have gun violence and tried hard to place our family in a similar area and still live in an area that is overwhelmingly safe. I don't think I have ever even seen a real gun.
However, as society continues to lose large percentages of people who are brought up with rules and respect for others, I would like to keep the option open to be able to buy a gun and learn how to use it.