These are the same people that insist we arm elementary school teachers and expect those teachers to someday pull the trigger on a child instead of having proper gun laws.
There is no irony.
There is no irony.
Sure, some places in the world can successfully limit gun access. Those places aren't close and even bordered by the most active cartels in the world.
Just as a fun thought exercise, consider that to grow the plant necessary to produce just a single drug, cocaine, for the country, every year. It takes at least 300,000 acres, or roughly the size of los angeles. That's after decades of optimizations to reduce the amount of land needed. It's also only for one drug among a vast number that are regularly consumed in the US.
In relation, you can 3d print guns at home. Successful builds have been made from some of the cheapest 3d printers you can find.
You would never achieve that in the US and that's incredibly obvious to me by looking at the gun crime stats in places that do already have gun control laws in the US.
When have criminals EVER followed law, code, rules, or even a suggestion from their fellow citizens?
Believing laws deter criminals is almost criminally insane and beggars all logic.
After all of the accumulated evidence against your belief, you still believe laws deter criminality.
The death penalty doesn’t deter criminals. How could words possibly have an effect?
Have you heard of Australia? https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/03/13/gun-l...
America is the worst industrialized country for gun deaths because the guns are present to enable those things to happen. Countless studies show that the key to reducing gun deaths is not more training, more “good guys”, or whatever else — it’s simply having fewer gun households period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Switzer...
This tracks with:
- High gun ownership
- Strong gun responsibility culture (guns are safely stored, so fewer accidents)
- Strong gun regulation (guns require permits that are not issued to those with criminal records)
Those statistics may not be wholly attributable to differences in gun laws but it seems a stretch to suggest they're unrelated.
[0] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-midst-public-health-crisis...
I have no illusion that safety or education is an actual concern in public schools in general.
In any case, its not as if your kid is safer at a private school. Kids are violent, no matter where they are; maybe you remember going through school yourself?