The government is killing its own people by letting them kill others

[CateM]

It's been almost ten years since Sandy Hook, 23 since Columbine, 4 since Parkland, and mass shootings are still on the rise. We hear this on the news as I become increasingly concerned for Gen Alpha and their future. It's an endless cycle, someone shoots up a public place, people die, it makes the news, sets the world on fire, the government doesn't bat an eye, and repeats. I am greatly dissatisfied with our government at the moment. At airports, theme parks, courthouses, stadiums, etc, they screen people for weapons but don't at schools, which need it more than ever nowadays, and we as Americans only have ourselves to blame for this. We need stricter gun laws, but people are too stubborn to support that. Though I know stricter gun laws will not prevent gun violence, they will reduce gun violence, and we need them to protect our citizens!

[Chazmatazz269]

Ell oh ell! You don’t really know what you’re talking about. There are hundreds of laws restricting firearms as well as the ownership and use of them. Sometimes those existing laws simply aren’t being properly enforced. We could definitely do with much harsher penalties for people who use guns to commit crimes.
The problem is that pretty much everyone who claims “we need stricter gun laws” knows nothing about existing gun laws, and 100% of their ideas only disarm law abiding citizens. You CANNOT “protect” citizens by disarming them. It’s pure fallacy.

[inhua]

stricter gun laws don't solve the problem. it's always been the user of a weapon that is more problematic than the weapon itself. if it's not guns, then it's knives, if it's not knives then it's fists.

[Curiosity2006]

We need you for a United States president! I freaking mean it.

[Naydyonov]

Does it not bother you that 43 000 people died due to vehicle collisions?

Mass-shootings kill a few hundred people per year. The last two years have seen murders spike to 22 000.

The tendency in America was for total murders to decline, as the number of mass-shooting victims increased. On the whole, the number of murders was still decreasing.

This changed in 2014. The murder-rate started increasing again in consecutive years. Prior to that, every year the murder-rate decreased, with only 1-year increases by 0.5% (2012) or 2.9% (2006). Yet the last two years of Obama's presidency (2015-2016) saw the murder-rate increase by 11.4%, then 8.9%, which comes out to an increase of 21.4% over two years. The first two years of Trump's presidency saw the murder-rate slightly decrease by 7% over his first two years in office (2017-2018). 2019 saw a 1% increase, which is more than the 2012 increase of 0.5%, but less than the 2006 increase of 2.9%.
So, so far, the only real abnormality in the whole 1992-current period was the two consecutive years of large increases at the end of Obama's 8 years as president.

In 2020, the murder-rate spiked by 28.64%.

I don't think it is a coincidence that 2014, a year of a major increase in murders, was when riots occurred due to perceived police-brutality, and the same with 2020 (BLM).

Mass-shootings are their own phenomenon, yet they result in the minority of murder-deaths in the US. They kill far less than vehicle collisions, far less than obesity, far less than suicide. They are tragic, but their mass-murder by nature makes them more memorable. You remember the mass-murder of 2 dozen students two decades ago, but ignore the fact that every day, dozens of people are individually killed in a variety of places, in a variety of ways.

[Anonymous]

The US had the second amendment for at least 230 years and this whole thing with the shootouts are a more recent thing. Hell, even in the 50s, school children were in gun clubs.

The guns aren't the problem, other means of violence will be used instead because the problem really lies with the deranged individual, my hypothesis is that something is causing more people to find themselves believing that they have nothing left to lose in life. Plus banning guns will only make law abiding citizens defenseless against those who aren't.

[Sargentcaptain]

> we need stricter gun laws

Which part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?

[Kiran_Yagami]

The government is "letting" anyone do anything. Laws are purely reactionary. They punish crime after the fact. They don't stop it. They never have. They never will.

[jamesgoldman]

They intend to kill others, keeps the rest of the population distracted from the truth

[Anonymous]

Stricter gun laws only treat the symptom, not the problem. It's like suggesting the cure for stomach cancer is a drug that increases appetite.

[Anonymous]

More people still die from vehicles than gun violence. Are you going to ban bad drivers?