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Treat these shootings as a process from (decision to implement action) to (horrific outcome). Enlist experts to find out what can continually stop that process.
by MollyRealized 4y ago
Treat these shootings as a process from (decision to implement action) to (horrific outcome). Enlist experts to find out what can continually stop that process.
And, yes, some of those steps would be gun laws. "How do we stop these kind of fires from burning down houses? Please don't say water, we have plenty of that at the lake."
- giantg2 4y agoI think it's a bit presumptuous to claim that some of the steps would be gun laws when we're enlisting experts to figure out what would continually stop school attacks. Maybe it would, maybe it would be something else.
- BareNakedCoder 4y agoThe Dickey Amendment[0] frightened the CDC from doing just that. Lobbied for by the NRA and added to a spending bill by a Republican congressman. "Although the Dickey Amendment did not explicitly ban it, for about two decades the CDC avoided all research on gun violence for fear it would be financially penalized." The CDC had budgeted $2.6M to study the problem. This was stopped and, in addition (as "punishment" perhaps?), exactly $2.6M was diverted to something else. Willful ignorance. What can you do? [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment