Children and a teacher were killed at an elementary school in Texas
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But also, what part of any of this shit looks like a well regulated militia? Take all the guns, including the police's, & lock them up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaWQd4njB0&ab_channel=Beauo...
So it goes, so it goes.
So I’d argue availability isn’t the core problem.
In my opinion it's most commonly a lack of hope. They don't see things getting better (bullying, social isolation). They don't think they have any chance at a good job/life (turn to crime, commit suicide). There seems to be some supporting evidence in studies that look at socioeconomic factors of violence.
How to fix that is highly debatable. The general points could be people having jobs they feel are meaningful or pay enough, people having a respected part in the community, and people having friends who don't make them feel isolated and hopeless.
Edit: why disagree without a discussion?
In this context, the only metric in which the US far surpasses other OECD countries is gun ownership and our idolatry of guns.
EDIT: Plus the constitutional enshrinement of gun ownership, based on a document written in the 17th century.
Another interesting thing is the focus on guns and gun laws that don't match the events. The gun laws being proposed would do almost nothing to prevent the events the media swarms to (Rand analysis shows). Most of them would have little impact on crime in general. The main way places like the UK get to low levels of gun violence is by near prohibition on ownership over generations. Then we will see that violent crime is still twice the US level, even after adjusting for differences in definitions.
Your last line is vague - can you expand? The UK has far, far lower murder rates than the US so do you mean that the UK has twice the amount of non-murder violent crime?
Stand you ground laws do not allow for deadly force to defend property. Ones life must be imminent threat of death or great bodily harm (or kidnapping, or rape, or any of the above in defense of a third person). The vast majority of places do not allow deadly force to defend property. I believe Texas has a law that sort of allows it on the presumption that anyone committing a felony on your property at night has deadly intent). But that's an exception. Reasonable force still applies as well.
And yes, approximately.
A hard heart doesn't kill anyone but its owner. Plenty of people in this world have hard hearts, but this level of constant gun violence only happens in the US. A hard heart may make pulling the trigger easier, but the bullets are what kill people.
And, yes, some of those steps would be gun laws. "How do we stop these kind of fires from burning down houses? Please don't say water, we have plenty of that at the lake."
Maybe it would, maybe it would be something else.
Another measure would be to raise the punishment for being an accessory, according to https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/blog/gun-violence/16-facts-..., at least one other person had knowledge of the attacker’s plan in 80% of the cases.
I don't think metal detectors or more surveillance at the school will help enough.
But implement the first two measures as a start.
And the actual solution is to solve why people do these things, not how. How is simple to solve, just lock everyone in 2mx2mx2m cubes permanently.