Just get the damn guns out of their reach. This “problem” is unique to America because of the stupid romance with guns.
Stop selling the guns like candies and move on, like the rest of the world. Sure, there will be problems, but smaller.
Stop selling the guns like candies and move on, like the rest of the world. Sure, there will be problems, but smaller.
The only real solution is to amend the constitution to remove the right to bear arms. I have no doubt that would lead to full scale civil war.
I agree the US constitution can not be changed without getting the people’s minds changed about the guns being a meaningful freedom defense mechanism.
But it is effectively a religion from what I see (I am not in the US). That makes any potential change very hard.
I'd argue for sensible gun control, but removing guns period could destabilize victims too. Having a sense of safety and security in the event of a home invasion, etc, is incredibly important. Not having that/taking it away feels like the easy paper solution, but is possibly much more harmful in the end (like forcibly institutionalizing people in local mental health hospitals, I'd note).
And people in countries without such a gun culture do not have worse self defense outcomes than those with one, so that argument doesn’t seem to hold scientific water. No idea how you get to institutionalization in your argument, either.