Anti-Gun people is your issue guns, or is it violence? Well let me ask, if you have gun violence and remove the guns, what are you left with? Now if you have gun violence and you remove the violence, what are you left with? I happen to know how to mix Ammonium Nitrate and fuel oil to create a really nasty explosive. It's one of the side effects of taking a variety of chemistry classes. I choose not to for a variety of reasons. Notice the lack of desire is the overriding factor. But clearly you wish to disregard logic and stick to your ineffective talking points. The same points that were used by....you guessed it...Conservatives to ban drugs and alcohol. Ignore history to appease your cognitive dissonance all you wish, the fact of the matter is simple; YOU CANNOT STOP ACTION BY BANNING OBJECTS, IT SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK. Why do you think Supply side economics doesn't work (while not banning something, attempting to control the supply has little effect on the outcome when compared to demand.), why banning drugs didn't work, why banning homosexuality doesn't work, why banning alcohol didn't work, why banning abortions does not work, why banning pornography does not work and why banning guns has not and will not work.
I'm not saying we don't have a problem, I'm simply saying that restrictions of firearms access does not and will not work. Hell, I don't even think Arming teachers is the best idea (although I don't think preventing properly trained and vetted personnel from owning and possessing them on schools is the best idea either). Honestly, I think if you want to protect schools, increase security. restrict the means of ingress to one location, screen people for weapons and laminate the windows so as to prevent breaching. Restrict access until it is shown that the entering person is safe instead of granting access until they are proven a threat. This is done, for the most part, in courts and airports.
If you want to limit the violence, address the violence. I can own 1,000 firearms and if I don't have the desire to use them on innocent people, it will never happens. Now if I had 0 firearms and I was intent on causing massive loss of life, I could do so with less trouble than it would for me to get a firearm. The argument for banning firearms is born out of a severe lack of familiarity and fear over firearms as well as laziness. People don't want to talk about the poverty, urban blight, decline in morality and ethics (I'm not talking about God or religion), obsessive media coverage, poor parenting, and other such issues because they are abstract and they require us to look at ourselves and find fault with ourselves as a nation and as individuals. Guns are easy to target because they are tangible. You can post up pictures and say, this is the enemy. These are the things responsible for our problems. It is easy to blame objects that can't speak for themselves or blame others for our problems. But unless we take responsibility for our actions things will only get worse. It is not the drug but the addiction that plagues the drug addict, remove the drugs and the problems they have are still there and will display themselves in other, often more violent, ways. Bottom line, if I shoot you, I am responsible, not the fire arm. Not the type of firearm. If I beat you with a club, It is me who is as fault. You want to tell us to focus on guns, well sorry, I prefer to focus on the problem, not the symptom. If you have bad breath, do you take a breath mint or do you treat the underlying infection resulting in the problem? I sure hope not.
Lastly, reduce the need for violence and you won't have to worry about guns. Sure you will have domestic violence issues, but those will happen regardless of tools available. Portugal for example decriminalized all drugs, replaced prison with treatment and their drug rates went down 50% and HIV rates went down. To take a reference out of economics, If you reduce the demand, the supply becomes irrelevant. Limit people's desire to kill people and it won't matter how many guns there are. Conversely, limit the supply of firearms and leave the demand there, guess what will happen...human ingenuity will prevail. When people want to do something bad enough, they will find a way. Which, incidentally is why the worse mass murder at a school was done by explosives, not firearms. (funny side note, the rate and magnitude of school shooting increased after the gun free school zone acts and with the increased level of media coverage of events. But hey, let's ban guns instead of addressing the real issues. Seems like a legit idea)
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