physics
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I think we can all agree that gun violence is a problem. Many people are murdered every year by people with guns.
This is, naturally, not the fault of the gun, but of the person using it. Now, many legislators have tried to ban guns because of this, which are not only unconstitutional (Thank you Heller), but obviously not the correct answer.
It is quite obvious that the U.S. is not a society in which traditional gun control is effective, nor is any other that I know of besides possibly Japan. Taking away guns makes only the criminals have guns, as we all know.
My point here is that the anti-gun crowd has had a try at reducing gun violence, and has been, as far as I know, horribly unsuccessful. Now, with the Heller ruling, it appears that we may be the ones to determine how all this plays out.
My question is thus: What would you do to reduce gun violence or even just violence in general? Now, I'd like to keep some restrictions on this in that I can just see many replies saying something to the effect of "shall not be infringed". I agree, this is a great GOAL, but at this time I don't feel that it is realistic.
So aside from overturning NFA or anything along those lines, what would we, the gun community propose to do about lowering gun violence (or even just violence in general)? Because damn sure we've seen what the antis think is the solution and I don't want any of that.
Keep in mind that I am looking more along the lines of crime/violence reduction rather than infringement. Feel free to bring in philosophy.
This is, naturally, not the fault of the gun, but of the person using it. Now, many legislators have tried to ban guns because of this, which are not only unconstitutional (Thank you Heller), but obviously not the correct answer.
It is quite obvious that the U.S. is not a society in which traditional gun control is effective, nor is any other that I know of besides possibly Japan. Taking away guns makes only the criminals have guns, as we all know.
My point here is that the anti-gun crowd has had a try at reducing gun violence, and has been, as far as I know, horribly unsuccessful. Now, with the Heller ruling, it appears that we may be the ones to determine how all this plays out.
My question is thus: What would you do to reduce gun violence or even just violence in general? Now, I'd like to keep some restrictions on this in that I can just see many replies saying something to the effect of "shall not be infringed". I agree, this is a great GOAL, but at this time I don't feel that it is realistic.
So aside from overturning NFA or anything along those lines, what would we, the gun community propose to do about lowering gun violence (or even just violence in general)? Because damn sure we've seen what the antis think is the solution and I don't want any of that.
Keep in mind that I am looking more along the lines of crime/violence reduction rather than infringement. Feel free to bring in philosophy.