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Originally Posted by Steve Rupe
Me personally nothing. I am not an activist. I would suggest that work be done on the mental health end, more be done on enforcing current gun laws, and more be done on educating gun owners on the proper storage of guns and the handling of guns. It is people that kill people and a gun is just an inanimate object.
When I was in High School, almost everyone student in my small rural town, owned one or more guns. Almost every family had one or more guns in the home. Almost every pickup had a rifle/shotgun rack in it with rifles/shoguns in the rack. Parked on the streets downtown, at homes and in the school parking lots.
The point being there were many guns in the hands of adults, teens and preteens. There were a couple of murders during domestic disputes and or a robbery, but other than that there were not any shootings. Not a single child was killed via a firearm in my town. I do not recall a single mass shooting in the nation during those years, though there may have been. In those days there were three networks and zero 24/7 news networks. Generally speaking the three networks had 30 minute news shows presented in the evenings.
Times were different and our society was different. Guns are still prevalent and because of a change in society/people gun use apparently is more frequent. The gun is and always has been an inanimate object. A gun does not kill on its own but a people using a gun do kill people. Work on the people problem not on there weapon of choice to kill one another. The people problem is a small percentage of the population. Tens of millions of people own guns and their guns do not kill anyone and never will.
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If only we could turn the clock back to 1970 and all live in a rural community we could solve the problem.
More could be done on mental health, education, enforcement, etc. But it won't stop adults who are too stupid to not allow a juvenile play with a gun, a man with a grudge opening fire on a crowd, school, workplace, club, etc. The problem with that society is cost and the loss of freedom, imagine a world where you had to submit to psychiatrist every six months. Then a policeman coming to your home every few months to make sure you safely store your guns. That's the only way to pick out the dangerous people to the non-dangerous. Or do you think filling a form will be enough?
As you say
A gun does not kill on its own but a people using a gun do kill people. Removing guns slows the problem down. No one expects Americans to act like normal people such as Canadians.