re: What is the answer to gun violence?

Treating 15 year olds like they don't know right from wrong when they're killing someone or stealing a car is a huge issue too. Violent crime is violent crime, no matter if the offender is 15 or 45.

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What is the answer to gun violence?

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Start blaming the shooter and stop blaming the gun.

Blaming the gun does two things:

1. It removes focus from the shooter

2. It subtly excuses the shooter from their actions

A firearm is an inanimate object, it can't force anyone to use it nor can it mandate how it will be used. It's like blaming hammers for faulty construction or the beer (or car) for someone dying due to being hit by a drunk driver.



To assess the problem you have to first look at the root cause, not the symptom. We can figure this out with some basic questions:

-What group is doing the majority of these shootings?
---Young males

-What is it that the majority of the members of this group have in common?
---Lack of positive father figure active in their life

Look at Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook), no contact with his father for two years. Ramos (Uvalde) was living with his grandmother because his mother was too much of an addict and his father was fairly absent (from what little I have been able to find). Blacks have the highest level of fatherlessness...



So if this theory is true then we should see a rate of shootings by young, black males which is higher than any other group.

And that's exactly what we find.

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Data for juvenile crimes - 2019:

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter:
Black: 860
White: 410


Weapons (carrying, possessing, etc.):
Black: 16,080
White: 8,940

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Now keep in mind that the black population is only ~12%-~13% of the total population yet it commits ~50% of total homicides and ~38% of all violent crime each year. Most of this is done by young, black males with most of them coming from fatherless homes. These kids are also very likely to create more fatherless children, thus exacerbating the problem.

And focusing on guns doesn't do dick to fix this.

The reason people (especially government) doesn't focus on this is because it's not an easy fix. You can't just outlaw "being a bad father" then pat each other on the back for a job well done, pose for pictures and then call it a day.

3rd leading cause of death is medical mistakes.

Just fyi.

Legalize drugs, almost all gun violence and the funds used to support it go away immediately, the rest of it is just a statistical anomaly.

The answer:

Decide who we are. If we are free nation of laws then we should accept that laws will be broken and punishment needs to be swift and harsh. No more SJW crap, no more “dindu nuffin” BS, you do the crime you do the time. And we need to add to the capital crimes list. Sexual crimes against children (under 15) need to be on the capital punishment list, 2 sex crimes for over 15 need to be a capital crime. Murder in the 1st or second degree needs to be a capital crime. Violent crime 3rd offense needs to be a capital offense. Drug offenses 3rd conviction needs to result in capital punishment. Any combination of crimes that can result in capital punishment needs to result in capital punishment on the 3rd offense (example: a rape, a violent crime, and a drug crime would equal 3 potential capital offenses and result in capital punishment).

Or we maintain the downward trajectory we are on with political correctness, SJW tripe, and “it’s not their fault” and we Balkanize.

"Gun" violence is a pc term, a political term, a Dem (wit) term. The phrase should be CRIMINAL VIOLENCE!
We cannot have a country, society, civilization without rules and laws and enforcement.
Sadly, what we have not is the edge of anarchy with criminals controlling the streets.
:violin: :violin: :violin:

Bringing back the death penalty is a starter...the "real" death penalty, not the one where we feel it is inhumane or where a murderer is still breathing good air some 30 or 40 years later.
And when a mass shooter goes on a rampage, it should be a policy where we take no prisoners! His or her only way out should be in a body bag, preferably a head shot!
Stop all this nonsense with a fictitious movement like BLM! The founders of this fake-assed movement have been corrupted by greed and power. All this came in the wake of the George Floyd incident and the country has yet to recover from this spiralling effect.

There are only 2 solutions:

1- pay more attention to the emotional and developmental needs of young men, and develop societal policies that reinforce the nuclear family. This begins with the cessation of male shaming 8’ education including but not limited to- trying to force females into spheres that men naturally prefer, a greater focus on sports and other means to allow boys to exert themselves physically, and curriculum in schools that addresses the ways that boys learn differently than girls (ex renewed focus on competition as opposed to always collaborating- which is how girls learn), reading materials focused on things that interest boys.

2-the return to more traditional gender roles will take at least a generation. So, in the meantime- stiffer penalties for gun crimes of all types including stiffer penalties for crimes of violence when committed with a firearm, and convicted felons found in possession of firearms.

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What is the answer to reduce these gun related incidents

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Somewhere I read that 6% of the population is responsible for more than 50% of the crime. The 6% needs to be taken out of general society before talking about any other fixes.

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