So I know this might be another "hot take", but I'm coming back to this...
I don't have a solution. Unlike other countries, there's one hundred million more guns than people in the U.S. Mass confiscation of guns is a non-starter. Maybe a few specific gun models could be confiscated on a state-by-state basis if there was a Huge push in the state. Maybe.
DaveC's post about Canada was helpful. I'm for any new laws (on top of our many, many current laws) if they're reasonable (in my mind), can pass a legislative body, and can hold up in court.....because not everyone agrees on what's reasonable and what isn't. That's for sure.
Do I think new gun laws will curb school shootings? No. Not on its own, at least.
I'm just curious, then, how long, exactly, do we have to keep waiting, then, for these reasonable laws that can pass a legislative body and can hold up in court to become a thing?
'Cause we'vel iiterally got them now. The Democrats have offered a lot of valid ideas to at least start trying to tackle this problem.
And guess what? One party still refuses to come on board with any of it. And it ain't the Democrats. Yet another attempt to try and pass bipartisan gun control laws falls apart because one party just can't seem to move even the slightest inch on supporting any sort of reform. We've been trying this method for the better part of a decade (even longer than that, really), with no major positive results. All that's happened is we continue to do nothing, and more mass shootings continue.
So I'm just curious, how much longer do you think we need to keep trying things the way you suggest before we finally just say, "Fuck it" and try a more drastic and bold move instead? Like, say, mass confiscation of guns.
(And mind, I'm not even saying that'd be a perfect plan, or wouldn't be fraught with its own risks. But hey, at least we'd actually be trying to do something, which is a hell of a lot more than what we're doing now.)
