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re: School shootings have changed the "Back to School" shopping game...
Posted on 7/26/18 at 5:08 pm to finchmeister08
Posted on 7/26/18 at 5:08 pm to finchmeister08
The sad thing is how normalized shootings have become, such that most Americans lose the sense of how much worse the shooting problem is compared to pretty much any other developed country.
I don't think any reasonable person believe you can ban guns in the US, but to avoid any sensible prevention is insane. We've made it so that there is nothing stopping someone on a terrorist watchlist or no-fly list or who is believed to be unstable and dangerous from legally getting a gun. And there are kids with serious issues in schools and most schools don't have the resources to deal with them.
Sure you won't be able to completely eliminate shootings, but to do nothing is pathetic. Just like you can't eliminate all traffic fatalities, but with seatbelt regs you can dramatic reduce deaths.
I don't think any reasonable person believe you can ban guns in the US, but to avoid any sensible prevention is insane. We've made it so that there is nothing stopping someone on a terrorist watchlist or no-fly list or who is believed to be unstable and dangerous from legally getting a gun. And there are kids with serious issues in schools and most schools don't have the resources to deal with them.
Sure you won't be able to completely eliminate shootings, but to do nothing is pathetic. Just like you can't eliminate all traffic fatalities, but with seatbelt regs you can dramatic reduce deaths.
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Posted on 7/26/18 at 5:12 pm to prokowave
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such that most Americans lose the sense of how much worse the shooting problem is compared to pretty much any other developed country.
...and it's still statistically insignificant. Well, unless you're an inner city young black male.
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but to avoid any sensible prevention is insane.
Let's here your "sensible prevention"...with details please.
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We've made it so that there is nothing stopping someone on a terrorist watchlist or no-fly list or who is believed to be unstable and dangerous from legally getting a gun.
Shall not be infringed.
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And there are kids with serious issues in schools and most schools don't have the resources to deal with them.
What does this have to do with gun control?
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Sure you won't be able to completely eliminate shootings, but to do nothing is pathetic.
Why are you addressing the tool instead of the issue?
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Just like you can't eliminate all traffic fatalities, but with seatbelt regs you can dramatic reduce deaths.
What are the stats of traffic fatalities vice gun fatalities in this country?
Posted on 7/26/18 at 5:20 pm to prokowave
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I don't think any reasonable person believe you can ban guns in the US, but to avoid any sensible prevention is insane. We've made it so that there is nothing stopping someone on a terrorist watchlist or no-fly list or who is believed to be unstable and dangerous from legally getting a gun. And there are kids with serious issues in schools and most schools don't have the resources to deal with them.
I like the way you intertwine school shootings with stopping terrorists. They are two different subjects with different ways of stopping both. But you needed that emotional plea of the children to go along with gun control to stop terrorists.
That play has been run before.
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