It's the Left who refuse to enforce the laws on the books - especially against career criminals. DAs in liberal cities and states have decided not to prosecute a huge number of crimes, simply releasing those criminals without charges. Shockingly, those same criminals are often committing the exact same crime the next day, and the cycle repeats. In reality, crime is skyrocketing, but the statistics aren't recording it because no charges are being filed and increasingly the police don't even make arrests because they know it's pointless to do so.
The Left control schools almost completely, and the same policies are in force there: trouble-maker kids are not disciplined, so classrooms are constantly disrupted, students are endlessly bullied, and even teachers are attacked, and nothing is done.
Why does this happen? It's because the Left WANTS crime to be high. Why would they want that? Simple: it allows them to justify demanding ever more power and money, and it convinces people who don't pay close attention that they need to give the government more power and money (i. e., reduced rights and higher taxes for the people).
The powerful on the Left needn't worry about any of this - their kids go to safe, private schools where security IS enforced (at gun point!) - and they certainly don't care what happens to YOUR kids. They've successfully manipulated you into pushing to give THEM more power and give up more of your rights and more of your money (and everyone else's) so that they can do even more things without having to worry what you think about it.
This is why the Right understands that "doing SOMETHING" is not the answer when that "something" is giving the government more power. The Left is an incredibly poor steward of the power they have, and they fail at every turn when they have it.
Look at ALL the places with the worst crime: they're all run entirely by the Left. Chicago has been run exclusively by Democrats for 100 years, and they have the worst crime anywhere. Same with Baltimore. Same with Detroit. The Left has taken over California, Oregon, and Washington state, and crime has skyrocketed and continues to increase, and the Left's "solution" is to decline to prosecute criminals and try to abolish cash bail so they can simply release criminals back out onto the streets. The Left doesn't have to worry about Republicans in these areas - they have a supermajority - so why are these Left-run cities so awful?
No they are going to blame it on mental illness and end of story like usual
Creating more laws won't help... enforcing existing ones more aggressively is what is needed.
It's already illegal to shoot people !!! Doesn't seem to bother any of the guys who shoot up schools. As long as there are guns at all... they'll find them !!!
Paying attention to mental health would also be part of a solution !!! Getting nut cases the help they need is also part of the solution... even if it means locking them up in a facility !!!
It seems to me it comes down to the fact that people cause violence and they will get whatever they can to do it. Whether it be guns, bombs, knives, etc. In other words, even if a society outlaws guns, like in Australia, people will find other weapons. In their case, "razors."
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u "Doing something is better than nothing." Wrong! Doing something that doesn't solve the problem isn't doing anything. Switzerland has a large gun ownership population and they don't have school shootings. The US did not have school shootings on this scale when I was a child. New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have very strict gun laws and they are all epicenters for homicide.
I think Democrats have two agendas with school shootings:
1. They don't want to identify the real problems because it will point to the failure of many of their "progressive" policies.
2. They want to use school shootings as a pretext to abolish private gun ownership because the left's goal is to have a society that is absolutely controlled by the government.
Yes and No.
Part of the problem with the United States beyond guns or any political party is that our electoral system itself is dysfunctional.
In the US, each state has a primary election and a general election.
The primary elections are for voters to select the candidates for the general election.
The problem is due to a combination of factors:
1. In the general election, everyone can vote for any person on the ballot. So, the candidates need to appeal to as many voters as they can in the general electorate.
2. BUT, with primaries, in most states, it is only the members of a political party that can vote and they can only vote for members of their party. So, for someone like me who is not registered with any political party, in some states, I could not vote for any candidate from any political party. However, if I was a Republican, then I can vote for one of the Republican candidates but not a Democratic candidate and, similarly, if I was a Democrat, then I can vote for one of the Democratic candidates but not a Republican candidate.
3. So, in primaries, the candidates need to appeal to "the base" - voters registered to their party. In the past, this was not such a bad thing because few voters were all that extreme regarding their party, so a candidate who might do well in a general election was often selected in the primary. However, NOW, the situation is different. The "base" of a party has become so angry with the other side, that they do not want to compromise. So, now, the candidate elected in the primary is more extreme. Thus, primary candidates usually often do NOT appeal to the general electorate.
4. But that's only part of it... I could go on about the lack of electoral fusion, the Electoral College, gerrymandering, etc., but I have only so much I am permitted to write.
So, again, in the primaries, to get elected, the candidate has to appeal to the base of the party and, right now, the base is very passionate. In the past, primaries were not that important - and, before that - didn't even exist! Anyway, this means that the candidate elected in the primary to be on the ballot in the general election is often rather extreme.
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So, as far as gun control is concerned, to get elected in the primary, a GOP candidate needs to be a hard conservative regarding guns. Then, in the general election, that candidate will usually win in a "red state" (one in which GOP voters significantly outnumber Democratic voters).
The end result is that GOP members of Congress have to be against gun control no matter what they personally feel about it. The moment a GOP candidate gets soft and suggests more gun control, another candidate who is more conservative is likely to get elected. So, it's sort of a no-win situation. And our kids and minorities are paying the ultimate price.
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Your news source sucks.
The Republicans have pushed for increased security at schools for a long time. They often leave much to be desired in terms of ensuring that government funding for security measures actually go towards security measures, but they are far from doing nothing, even while the Democrats consistently oppose it while also quite comically advocating for defunding police and disarming law abiding citizens. I happen to know for a fact that public schools in Texas received funding (federal funding Im pretty sure) to install improved security measures and have at least one officer on each campus. This school in Uvalde apparently did not have a School Resource Officer on site at all, and did not have apparently any security obstacles that could even stall the shooter. Heads can and should be rolling over that, first in Uvalde and ultimately statewide. I'm willing to bet that districts who have done nothing or don't have an SRO on campus will try to use COVID as an excuse. I'm also willing to bet that, as a recent student, the shooter knew that the district didn't actually have armed security in the schools. Anyone who tries to tell you that armed guards and controlled entry points don't act as a deterrent to domestic terrorists has instantly discredited themselves on the subject, or they very hypocritically work at the US Capitol building which relies on exactly those things for security.
The Democrats' go-to solution is to talk about background checks. These are already a thing, and the shooter in Uvalde passed one, twice. The bill that Chuck Schumer (a Democrat by the way) has been sitting on and as of yesterday not planning on bringing to the floor for two more weeks does basically nothing except make it harder for family members to transfer ownership of a firearm between each other, and a Trojan horse for a national registry. The entire plan from their standpoint is to just let it happen, and then have paper evidence to punish the shooter afterwards, assuming they're even still alive. They don't care about public safety at all, and if they did, they wouldn't allow their most valuable cities become gang-infested sh*tholes while painting fingers elsewhere.
Doing something stupid absolutely CAN be better than doing nothing.
Funny how all Democrats can think about is more, more and more "gun control" legislation. "Oo, that's complicated. Let's do something superficial and counterproductive, instead. Let's blame Republicans. Let's punish every living and future U. S. for the actions of one or a handful of very disturbed individuals. And lets focus on only the white perpetrators."
The bottom line: "We demand fewer rights! We demand fewer rights! Fuck anyone who disagrees!"
I wonder why nobody ever talks about causes of all violence, not just gun violence.
Why are 80% of homicides by firearm committed by gangs, according to the FBI? As for mass shootings, what factors turn a person into a pressure cooker that eventually explodes? Something causes insanity and it ain't guns.
Here's the thing. The Gun-Control lobby has one single agenda - to limit firearm access as much as possible to American citizens. It's goal IS NOT to prevent deaths.
All mass shootings happen in "gun-free zones". The cities with the most restrictive gun policies also have the highest rates of fatal shootings. How's that gun control strategy working out?
So what is the true goal of "Gun control"? Power and control over the only free people in the world by those whose goal is a tyrannical, unrepresentative, New World Order/One World Government.
A loaded questionâŠ. And itâs clear what your beliefs are based on your question. Itâs also unlikely you are open to conversation/thoughts outside your beliefs. So, Iâm not sure why you actually asked the question. All you are looking for is a fight and/or other who are like minded to you to validate your beliefs/thoughts.
Are there tweaks we can do to the significant amount of gun laws / restrictions on the books, probably. There are a few things I could think of / loopholes out there that could be cleaned up. Will that totally solve the problem, itâs unlikely.
The problem has nothing to do with guns and has everything to do with our degenerate society and their inability to empathize, value life and respect others (no matter their beliefs, political or other) - (itâs ok to bash people about political views, gun ideology, anything you donât agree with).
Note: everyone needs to educate themselves about existing laws, the use of guns, guns themselves, etc before having an educated conversation - (most have no clue). by the way, there is no such thing as an assault rifle.
Joe Biden funded the Taliban $85.6 Billion in firearms, operational black hawks, fighter jets, and armored vehicles and advanced defense technology, and you're worried about what republicans think? He did the withdrawal in 3 days, rather than a year like he even said out of his own mouth... It would take a year to take troops and equipment, weapons out of there.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rq-8OK4wgaA
The democrats funded terrorists... And clearly you don't care about the Americans that were left behind in Afghanistan, Aswell as the 13 US service members and the 264 Afghan civilians that were killed because of joes incompetence.
There's hundreds of millions of legal and illegal firearms in America, you can't ban guns, its physically impossible. people are printing and building ghost guns as we speak... You act as if its every republicans fault for gun violence... when that's not the case at all.
Ok but Switzerland absolutely has strict gun laws. Read this article and go to the bottom and youâll see how strict they really are. The government requires background checks there for everyone and if you have a mental issue the government can and will take the guns away from you. There are many many more regulations than this I canât even begin to list just how extensive their gun laws are.
https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-of-gun-deaths-2018-2?amp
Another article on how strict Swiss gun laws now are: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21379912.amp
Here is a comment from an actual Swiss person in response to a post in this picture on how strict Swiss gun laws actually are:
https://mobile.twitter.com/markruffalo/status/642745108077481984?lang=sv
And here is a recent election in Switzerland where via popular vote 64% of all Swiss people voted for EVEN tougher gun laws in addition to all the ones mentioned above:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/vote-may-19--2019_gun-lobby-looks-set-to-miss-its-referendum-target/44960944
So yes while you can own guns in Switzerland they donât have no gun control. Itâs incredibly strict and highly regulated so donât push the lie that it isnât strict. Every Swiss person you meet will simply tell you that it isnât true. Switzerlandâs policies have obviously worked so why canât we have this style of gun control in America?
High school mass shootings have been a regular occurrence for more than 20 years. What makes this one any different?
It's pretty obvious what the GOP are doing when they say they want to negotiate a bipartisan agreement on gun control. They'll only offer some very minor concessions, that they know won't have any real impact on people's ability to obtain guns, and which won't do anything to curb gun violence.
The Democrats can either agree to it - in which case, when the same thing happens again, the GOP can simply say "We've tried gun control - *you* even helped design it - but it didn't work".
Or the Democrats can say it's not enough - in which case, when the same thing happens again, the GOP can simply say "We wanted to introduce this gun control, but *you* wouldn't agree to it - it's *your* fault this happened".
As usual, the Republicans are wrong on the issues, but completely out-playing the Democrats in the politics game.
âDoing something is better than doing nothing.â
1000% disagree.
I think this statement is quite false.
A lot of gun laws already exist.
People with bad intentions exist.
Part of being an adult is to accept certain truths in life.
One of these truths is that bad things happen that no one can prevent. You can make all the laws you want, ban whatever you think is bad, and do more and it wonât necessarily be an improvement as it can actually make things worse.
Whenever there is a catastrophe, the reaction is to do something because people are afraid. At this point, they may not even be thinking, rather, acting out of emotion.
They NEED to do something, even if that something wonât help anyone and can hurt more people.
No, it goes directly against their donor's wishes. The only way the GOP will ever allow any gun control is if every minority or POC went out an purchased a gun. That's what happened to the Black Panthers. That or the choice is gun control or swing from the gallows. Boebert, De Santis, and MTG have already stated that shootings like in Texas are the price we have to pay for our rights. Boebert and MTG both suggested everyone buy their children "ballistic blankies" and stfu already. So yeah, there's an industry growing around kids being massacred in schools, the GOP are all about business. We already have to have laws to tell businesses and the GOP that no, you can't use child labor, yes there needs to be a minimum wage, no you can't make people work 18 hours a day seven days a week. Dying children and making money is the GOP's bread-and-butter.
Both sides can attempt to do something about it. But there will be a true end to gun violence. Because much like the illegal drug trade, it's very much fueled by a international illegal trade. We have been fighting the war on drugs since the 70's and it's a war that has never had a clear ending in sight. Thinking a war on guns will turn out any different is illogical. We tried the war on alcohol via prohibition before the war on drugs. Also several states declared war on cigarettes prior to that. Both instances simply created a illegal market for both.
Do gun violence much like crack and meth is something that only attempt to minimize the impact of. Because we will never fully eliminate the three.
Republicans are all about keeping guns and defending the 2nd amendment. I am Republican. But we also believe that there needs to be a responsibility in the home and an incredible amount of safety.
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Let me just say this...
Every time there is a call for weapons ban and strict gun control by the Democrat party
And I underline.. EVERY TIME...
There is always a school shooting.
The person that does the shooting is always a Democrat.
Don't take my word for this. Do your homework and make up your own mind. I recommend that you should study this as if you were writing your college thesis.
Knowledge and education makes unqualified to be slaves
Illegally getting guns isn't difficult.
Matter of fact there is a YouTube video out there that loosely details how black market guns are made and sold I'm not going to send you a link because that would be very negligible of me.
Honestly posting how to get guns online is a very stupid thing to do as is we already have enough shootings making the knowledge even more widely available is not going to help.
Oh yeah I forgot there's also a book you can buy that tells you how to make guns at home it was banned in the UK for very obvious reasons you can buy that book in the United States by the way it has a US publisher.
Dude Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, just killed a new bill that would help protect children in schools. 😂
Democrats have no interest in fixing any gun crime. Stop believing their lies. They only want to use it as a wedge issue to get you to vote for them.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/parkland-vics-dad-blasts-schumer-for-heartbreaking-school-safety-bill-block/
âSchumer (D-NY) blocked the legislation, claiming it would put more guns in schools.â
I do not think they will unless their solution is more guns. To them guns are more important than children's lives. They've made that clear with their refusal to bend with any compromise to gun control.
I hope this isn't what it takes, and I say this without desire to be correct, but if a republican politician (s) has a kid in a school that gets shot up then... maybe they'd wake up. I really don't like this part of humanity. I hope that's not why change happens one day. I hope it happens before the next shooting.
Lol
America has devolved from a 1st world country into a 3rd world country.
The change is now so deep and absolute, nothing that the Republicans or Democrats do can ever change it.
We are on a downward spiral to imperial collapse, secessionism and civil wars. Get used to it.
No.
Both the republican AND democratic politicians will do as instructed.
The American people don't want anything done. If they were going to do it for kids, they would've done it for Sandy Hook and Uvalde wouldn't have happened.
So long as American citizens as a whole refuse to look in the mirror and acknowledge how the current govt leadership has power, this will persist.
Not doing so is a choice.
Itl never happen,
They dont care about you. Or your kids. And never will.
guns are not the problem
People are the problem
if anything more people should carry guns, it would make idiots think twice about doing somthing stuped if everyone was armed
How about enforcing the laws that are already on the books. Where I live there is a mandatory year in jail for anyone found with an unregistered firearm. This is never enforced because 99% of the people arrested for this are minorities and so the democrats say the law is racist. It does not take a genius to figure out what the result of this will be,
I will add that blame doesn't solve problems. Neither do emotions help in decisions, actions, words and collaboration. It starts with common ground, discussion and agreement. If the person is unable to even listen and try to discuss and understand points of view and why the person is passionate about something, nothing ever gets done. This is about what is moral and common sense right and good. You have to agree, the police and school are accountable and of course, politicians in Texas as well.
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