There's no simple way to really do it but if you take away all the guns the folks who are doing shootings will consider other means of taking life. Probably more extreme rather than less. It's not a gun issue. It's a responsibility and mental health issue. It takes a village to raise proper healthy minded individuals and there's science to prove it.
Children who are not brought up favorable conditions tend to have issues. And no that doesn't just mean poor financially. Rich kids have it too.
There's a few folks in the world who have the finances to do things and pay people to do them without going broke but their spaceship buttplugs are so far up their asses it's putting a load on their brains.
@MrGoat The guns are not all equal. The access they have to guns that can MASS murder in an instant is where we should start imo.
@LaurelGreen Shooting in itself is fun. Not for everyone, but it can be fun.
The problem with this is that if you ban ARs then someone who has one illegally has an advantage when they break into your house with it.
@MrGoat They already have that advantage when they shoot up a school. SROs dont carry assault rifles (tho leos responding might, AFTER kids are dead).
@LaurelGreen yeah scanners would be a thing to have in all schools - someone can contract it and get it done. Otherwise drones.
@MrGoat we have scanners, but a very open campus with multiple entries. And kids are damn creative. We’ve had a shooting on campus even with ALL the things(scanners sros). Thank the gawds it was not with assault rifle.
@MrGoat If you break into a house with an AR and you meet a shotgun you'll not stand a chance because unlike the shotgun owner, you'll need time to aim accurately.
@MrGoat @LaurelGreen My point being that in close quarters, under stress, a shotgun is by far the superior weapon.
@MrGoat @LaurelGreen who's doing home invasions with assault rifles? At close quarters such a weapon doesn't give much advantage against a handgun anyway. In fact it's a detriment unless you really have a lot of training. They banned them once and the effect seemed to be beneficial over a decade. Of course it coincided with already falling violent crime rates so cause and effect are not so directly correlated.
@MrGoat @LaurelGreen
How come discussion of gun laws is about the only place where the argument, "but some people might break the new law" has any weight?
We're after progress here, not perfection
@BrentSullivan Progress is better than no progress. And I don't see why you couldn't rent an AR at a range and shoot it there? =) @LaurelGreen
@MrGoat I agree in mental health. Not sure I agree about more extreme methods of murder. Even with YouTube it takes know how to build a proper bomb for major effect without blowing yourself up. Cars, yes you can drive down a sidewalk or promenade, etc. But for how long? What other methods can do as much damage as guns, especially in closed spaces?
@hallmarc I don't want to disclose a methods of destruction. =/
@MrGoat again, most *effective* methods (as effective as an AR with high capacity magazine) take more training and experience than what is readily available now. It doesn't mean people won't find a way but it will take them a lot longer.
@MrGoat I think we should look at countries that don’t have guns or gun violence. See what works
A big thing would be for everyone to have proper access to Healthy Nutritional food while being able to also access clean/safe housing and education.