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What's the elephant in the room?
by potsandpans 1y ago
What's the elephant in the room?
- jdiff 1y agoI'm sure there's multiple depending on what angle you want to take. Historically, it's been "USA is not the only developed country that has had this problem, but it is the only one that hasn't solved it." Maybe with a dash of "Guns are the number one cause of death for children."
- righthand 1y agoGun control.
- chimineycricket 1y agoObviously this would help immensely, but this wasn't happening in the 90s when kids would bring guns to school for show and tell. Whatever changed, the better solution is to reverse that. What do you think?
- righthand 1y agoHow do you reverse the Columbine massacre?
- Ancapistani 1y agoI must point out that Columbine was in 1999 - almost exactly midway through the 1994 "assault weapons ban".
- righthand 1y agoEvery shooting creates more terrified people wanting more security.
- chimineycricket 1y agoObviously I'm talking about reversing shootings, that's not possible. I'm talking about the culture that's developed, that has led to more angry kids. Angry enough to shoot their classmates. Wouldn't reversing that culture be the ultimate solution? Banning guns only delays the symptoms of this anger.
- righthand 1y agoI don’t think anyone will argue against doing both. Okay now break the modern American culture. Something something loneliness epidemic.
- potsandpans 1y ago[flagged]
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- righthand 1y agoI’m not offering, I’m clarifying the commenters intent.
- jdiff 1y agoFlat, closed-minded positions like this are why the USA is the only developed country that enjoys the privilege of regularly burying bullet-ridden children. We can have gun control. We can limit the damage that civilian weapons can do, while also keeping hunting and defense, as many countries do. Anyone who says that guns have any legitimate purpose beyond that (overthrowing governments) is deluding themselves. We reserve plenty of weapons for military use only.
- potsandpans 1y ago[flagged]
- southwindcg 1y agoI was personally referencing gun control (and mental health interventions), but there are surely lots of others too when it comes to this particular problem.