How should we reduce gun violence in the U. S?

[WakeSkateNut2126]

Concealable vs semi-auto vs automatic opinions?

Hell yeah. I got hobbies baby.

Protection is my main reason for owning guns.

I don’t own guns but I support people having them.

I think law enforcement should have guns but not regular citizens.

There should be no guns in the hands of our citizens.

[ChrisMaster69]

By not making it a political issue, not allowing NRA any involvement.

By being sensible about who can buy what and how many they can own.

Some living in a small apartment in New York City, does not need x semi auto rifles.

Someone living in rural Texas has justification to own the above.

Also there needs to be something done with societies view of using firearms.

Before Dunblane in Scotland (resulted in handgun bans), there were very few killings with firearms, Hungerford banned semi autos, before then there were very very shootings.

People play their part and must take responsibility for actions done by society.

[slatyb]

We should make it seriously difficult to obtain a gun — mandatory training and a waiting period. Illegal gun possession should be a serious crime, with mandatory prison time.

[WakeSkateNut2126]

Love it.

[Pterodon]

Unconstitutional

[Aerissa_Jade]

Enforce existing gun laws more effectively.

Get to the root of why people want to shoot others.

No point in trying to outlaw them, guns are the 2nd most trafficked item in the USA. Look how well the government has been able to stop the flow of illegal drugs, if legal citizens can't own them, criminals can still buy them as easy as illegal drugs.

Who is going to protect us if guns are outlawed when only criminals can buy them from being trafficked in? The police have no legal responsibility to protect us, plus it can take a long time for one to respond.

[bgreek]

You mean like disarming the cops 1st

[Aerissa_Jade]

@bgreek If we did that, we'd have no cops.

[bgreek]

What is the difference between a criminal and cop?
A cop has a badge to do anything
Plus, they think they are above the law
And it's pretty sad, cops can't fight without a gun
So i say
If people wants guns off the street
Let's start by disarming the cops 1st

[KrisPW]

Major push cracking down on gang activity and violence.
Severe punishments for using a gun directly in the commission of a crime.

[Rangers]

Abolish the ATF, repeal the NFA, take away prosecutors immunity, make it a federal crime for prosecutors to move forward with a case in which a citizen defended themselves justifiably. Make taxes on firearms and ammo illegal, allow recreational shooting on any and all public land, and repeal licensing requirements for hunting. There, now we have reached peaceful utopia🇺🇲

[exitseven]

I never thought I would ever want to own firearms but I am buying a couple and am going to learn to shoot at a training faculty in the spring. I am pissed about this but I see it a something that will be more necessary as we see the fabric of civilization unravel.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Not the politically correct thing to say but it will have to be to get rid of a lot of black men in certain low income neighborhoods.

Black men in the U. S. are about 6% of the U. S. population but account over 50% of all violent crimes. They are the problem.

[WhiteBoyChill]

So true. Someone had the balls to say it.

As a matter of fact, if not for black men the US crime rate would be similar to Europe

[WakeSkateNut2126]

Or gangs?

[Smashingdoozy]

Violent crime is more than just guns so that's an unfair representation for this topic. I couldn't find anything that totals gun crime overall in my short search but, with mass shootings from 1982 to November of this year 53% were done by white people and 17% by African Americans.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

@Smashingdoozy: White in the U. S. are like almost 70% of the population while black people are 13% of the population, so not even close to a quarter of the population and mostly black men who are 6% are the ones doing the shootings.

A tiny percentage of them are the ones who are causing a lot of hell and violent crime.

[Smashingdoozy]

Mass shooting % almost mirror the race distribution. But again I don't know about gun crime in general.

[WhiteBoyChill]

@Smashingdoozy gun crime in general is what we’re talking about.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

We should stop poisoning the brains of urban youth with lead.

[Rangers]

We should stop poisoning everyone with the terminal brain disease known as liberalism

[888theGreat]

Simple, by keeping criminals in prison for life. If they are in prison they can't use guns.
I really think liberals and Democrats let them out to use guns in more crimes so they can cry about gun crimes.

[Seangreen]

I think you could stop the violence by instead of taking the guns and restricting guns from law-abiding citizens make sure that the people who shouldn't have guns don't have guns it's that simple

[exitseven]

How about prosecuting gang members for possession of unregistered firearms. Most states have laws on the books about this but do not enforce them because it would be racist.

[bgreek]

Let's go back to the old west days
Where everyone had a sidearm
A sidearm is a gun on the hip
Than the crime rate will drop way down
Guns don't kill people, people use guns to kill people

[Pterodon]

I love my guns. I hunt, target shoot and have them for personal protection. I openly carry everyday everywhere and fully support constitutional carry

[najekim]

"An armed society is a polite society." - Robert A. Heinlein.

[Deserter]

Guns aren't the problem, society is. They happen cause people feel isolated, which literally makes them go crazy

[Anonymous]

Abolish the obsolete second amendment and ban guns.

[TheLittleInnocent]

I say we nuke the planet!

[Still-alive]

The suns gonna do most of that work for us

[TheLittleInnocent]

Yea but that's gonna take a long while

[Neko_Nya]

Solve the overwhelming mental health crisis

[SmokinAces2000]

By not giving stupid and unhinged people weapons

[WhiteBoyChill]

Or by telling black people to be less violent

[SmokinAces2000]

Well since you want to bring race into it, white men make up almost all of the public shootings that happen

[WhiteBoyChill]

I know bro we got our issues too but black people are a majority of the problem

[SmokinAces2000]

Not really but a racist will believe racist rhetoric so there’s not much I can do 🤷‍♂️

[WhiteBoyChill]

Its not rhetoric its facts bro. Black people got problems they need to work on just like white people do

[SmokinAces2000]

Never said they didn’t but they aren’t the majority of the problem at all

[WhiteBoyChill]

Nah but like most of the violent crime is committed by black people tho

[SmokinAces2000]

Name some of them

[WhiteBoyChill]

Black on black crime

[SmokinAces2000]

Yeah and it’s also funny how no one says anything about “white on white” crime

[WhiteBoyChill]

Because it doesn't happen as often as black on black.

[SmokinAces2000]

That’s because there is no such thing as black on black crime, if a neighborhood is 90 percent black and people are killing each other than of course it’s going to be more black people killing other black people because of vicinity not race

[WhiteBoyChill]

Ye bro. I never said black people target other black people because they’re black

[SmokinAces2000]

Than why call it black on black crime because that certainly insinuates that black people are just killing each other for the hell of it

[WhiteBoyChill]

Because they do kill eachother for the fun of it but race isn’t their motivation

[SmokinAces2000]

That’s actually not true if you research things but judging from past interactions with you, “research” isn’t one of your strong suits

[WhiteBoyChill]

Nah but black people enjoy being gang members tho

[SmokinAces2000]

And what do you call the rich white guys that band together to commit tax fraud and other white-collar crimes. By definition they are gangs

[WhiteBoyChill]

That’s non-violent tho

[SmokinAces2000]

Still hurts people

[WhiteBoyChill]

The feds dont deserve our money tho

[Smashingdoozy]

✨gun control ✨

[Anonymous]

Bring back capital punishment.

[Anonymous]

More guns

[SmokinAces2000]

Could you please explain the logic behind this opinion