How many mass shootings would have been stopped with gun restrictions, mandatory gun licensing or 'anything else'? Your quote, not mine. For the record, we already have 'gun restrictions' and most of the mass shooters still got their hands on guns. How many more restrictions do you need? I am challenging you to find a solution that does not result in a total outright ban of any semi-automatic gun.
Why can’t that be part of the solution? Why does a person need that type of weapon? You want protection for your home? Have a handgun. You want to hunt? Take a rifle or a shot gun. Why do you need anything semi or fully automatic?
uhhh nearly all handguns are semi automatic. Fully automatic's are already illegal w/out the proper stamps.
I'll bite. It's already considered constitutional to detain people after their prison sentence if they're still considered crazy. Just expand the reasons and ability to restrict the freedoms (gun buying, gun owning, institutionalization) of people who show violent behaviors. The modern interpretation of due process is a hippie liberal creation of the Warren Court anyways. From a text, history, and tradition standpoint, interpreting constitutional due process rights has always been deferring to the government to restrict liberty for a variety of reasons.
I dont' think that's true at all. Unless you consider most democracies authoritarian states. I don't know why we need a 95% reduction. Why not just start with a 50% reduction. Or any reduction? You don't need to ban weapons to have effect. Just make it hard for mentally unstable people to obtain weapons. That's very doable.
Most modern handguns are semi-automatic. Those that aren't are either revolvers (which also fire one shot per trigger pull, they just have a different loading mechanism), or very rare options like derringers and bolt-action pistols. It sure is weird that there is not a big drop-off after 1994, when the assault weapons ban actually went into effect.
This is what I mean, people are okay with these events happening since they are rare. I am not okay with them so I am good with making it as hard as possible to get a gun to prevent them from happening since it appears to work based on other developed countries enacting similar measures. I don't really have a compromise on this position either.
Suicide rates among children and adolescents have increased by over 80% over the past decade in the U.S. Of those deaths, about 40% involved firearms. Suicide rates among children and adolescents who live in homes with guns are four times higher than among those in homes without guns. https://www.srcd.org/research/access-firearms-increases-child-and-adolescent-suicide
Yep, most gun deaths are suicide, homicide was declining up until very recently when it has skyrocketed over the last 2 years. That being said, the homicide rate is not going to be significantly affected by mass shootings (as of now). Mass shootings are definitely higher than it was in the 80s It's interesting to see that pause in the early 2000's
This part of that article sums it up for many. The article ends by pointing out that the United States is the "only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years," and that Americans view themselves and the situation as "helpless." It doesn't have to be that way unless you think like leaders of violent 3rd World Countries. Change won't be easy, but more and more guns, and loose gun laws is certainly not the answer!
