TeoFireyes im mocking the people that still say that the us doesnt have a gun problem and that gun control doesnt work, even tho we continue to see these mass shootings mainly in the US.I dont get this idea that control definately 100% works. It very much does to a point, but fucked up people are always gonna fo fucked up shit. Like, a few years ago we had a school "shooting" in sweden, done with a sword. School shootings are a recent trend, guns are not. Fix the root issue of people feeling so shit that they want to commit mass murder and you fix all of this. My heart goes out to the victims, this shit has to stop.
School shootings are a more recent trend but the sustained higher murder rate in the U.S. due to our enormous circulating supply of guns isn't. Look at other, similar industrialized countries. Nearly all of their murder rates are far lower than ours.
Which gun control measures would prove especially effectual? I honestly don't know. There are 393 million guns in the country. The gun culture is such that buyback programs would encounter tremendous resistance. But solvability aside, the fact that there exist this many in the country in civilian hands is undeniably responsible for our heightened murder rate. Crazy people will exist anywhere. Weapons that allow them to consistently murder 5+ people in sprees? That's a uniquely American problem compared with socioeconomically comparable nations.
I just want to say (this has nothing to do with the post to which I just replied) how fucking angry I get at the desensitization. It's so commonplace we accept it as a normal facet of American life now. It's almost like we've forgotten what it means to actually die; that victims of gun violence are literally gone forever, that there's no recourse for their families whose loved ones are torn away from them because these people will NEVER experience the joy of seeing their mother, father, son, daughter, brother, or sister ever again.