Posted: 07 April 2021 at 10:44am | IP Logged | 10
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"So, are there other solutions we are missing?"
Unfortunately, I don't think so. There is nothing inherently bad about a gun. Its just an object. The problem is that crazy people and evil people get access to guns, and use them to do crazy and evil things.
So you have to either prevent them from having access, through gun control, or you have to somehow deter them from misusing guns when they do get access.
The question then becomes how do you effectively deter them? We've tried to do it through harsh criminal penalties like the three strikes rule, enhanced punishment for crimes that involve a gun, etc., but those measures didn't work. In some cases, there is no apparent answer. Many of the mass shootings have been suicide missions, so how do you discourage someone by threatening them, when their intent is to die?
That brings us right back to gun control. Preventing access is the only really effective way to stop the crazy people and the evil people from using guns, and it has been effective in other countries.
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