Would banning guns make the USA a more or less violent country?
>real education in terms of firearm handling
We used to do this as part of physical education in the midwest US. We had a 1-2 week course on gun safety and would shoot shotguns and rifles (no pistols though).
>get out of the culture that firearms are for republicans, rednecks and hillbillies
Agree but this means shushing the people that reject firearms based on that specific association.
>be over with the cult of guns
There isn't just one 'cult of guns' in the US. The vast majority of gun owners are just normal people, but cult-wise there's the tacticool mall operator type with $8K of gear and cringeworthy social media, the Charlton Heston old guard that fondles their Colt single action on Sunday afternoons, the brooding emo outcast that constantly makes vague threats from mom's basement and the hood rats and gang bangers that dgaf about anything.
Statistically its the last two that have had the biggest effect on mass shootings [1] and homicide rates [2], but addressing it head on is super complex and politically dangerous so nothing really gets done.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_S... [2] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
This is not your average gun safety course. Having so many guns lying around, I would hope one has to go through all the hoops that the Swiss and Finnish gun owners have to, including the initial screening.
In other words, high gun ownership rate is not the problem. The regulation is (or lack thereof).
But how to get to less guns in a country like the US, that’s the real puzzle.
And to follow up, what's the probability that the US still exists in its current form after the immediate short term?
Even as someone that would support repealing the 2nd amendment entirely in an ideal world, I'm not ignorant of the absolute political shitstorm it'd cause. Civil war round 2 type stuff.