Alcohol and pot are items we've banned (with disastrous consequences). I brought them up only in response to the suggestion of banning guns. I don't think banning cigarettes would work either. I can't think of anything that millions of people like and consider part of their culture that has been successfully banned.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/two-killed-several-injured-serbian-village-shooting-2023-05-04/ That's two in two days in Serbia.
Gotta love guns. This shit is happening pretty much daily now. Nothing is being done to stop it. Sickening.
Again, we've had easy access to guns the entire history of our country. It will take us decades to change that, assuming we ever do (we can't). Trying to solve this problem by focusing on guns is the absolute least effective way to go about it. This is a new problem that has started happening even though we have less access to guns than we've had in the past. Fewer households now have guns in them. Yet these tragedies keep happening. Nothing will ever be done about this until we start focusing on what has actually changed to cause this. It certainly wasn't easier access to guns. The logic just doesn't follow.
We've had more mass shootings in 2023 than days this year so far....200 and counting. Saying nothing will ever be done about it is surrendering to it...ignoring easy access to guns and ammo as a major contributing factor is also why crazy people go on shooting sprees in public places. Violence is sold as entertainment and young people just watched their elders storm the Capitol ..watched cops shoot unarmed people for no reason, etc....people can all have a bad day but people with an armory of weapons having a bad day is a powder keg waiting to go off. In any country that doesn't allow guns to be owned by the public....violent crime is a fraction of what we're going through here in cowboy country. As soon as gun legislation is up for vote....I'll vote for it.
Every time a shooting major enough to generate thoughts ant prayers happens, democrats should put a Universal Basic Income bill before congress and see if republicans counter with a gun control bill instead. We gotta attack the problem lower down in the hierarchy of needs pyramid.
