Mass shootings

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(02-22-2018, 11:48 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: You can try to ban guns all you want but at the end of the day, people will still get their hands on them through the black market and by other means and continue to commit crimes. There were two people at work debating about gun control the other day (I know...kill me, right?) and one of the guys finally said "Well if you want to make guns illegal then they should just make murder illegal, then no one would ever do it."

That comment actually stuck with me. I think at times a lot of us forget that the bigger crime committed during these shootings is the actual act of murder. People are breaking the law when it comes to murder so its more than likely they will break the law when it comes to gun possession. Gun laws wont fix it.

There is an interesting chapter in the book Freakonomics that uses mass metadata so answer the question if gun regulation actually works, and the straight up answer is NO, it does not work. In the book it mentions Switzerland and how it has one of the highest gun per person capitas in the world yet they are one of the safest countries in the world with some of the least amount of gun violence.

In no way am I saying that we need to give everyone out there a gun or am I for banning guns completely, but I am for passing legislation or laws making guns impossible for those who shouldn't have them from getting them.

My biggest issue with everyone is that they are so far right or left on the issue. Ban them completely or give them to everyone. One of the first steps in trying to make this better (because there really is no solution to COMPLETELY eliminate it) is to meet in the middle and come up with a plan that makes sense.

The conversation I had over the weekend (and may have posted here) was basically there are extreme views.   And those people who hold those views will never be happy unless they get their way 100% of the time.

But those of us in the middle need to ignore them and try to move toward answers and if they don't work then look for different answers...even if that means those extreme people are not happy and continue to get loud.

Switzerland does have a large number of guns...but are they also heavily regulated?  That would be an argument that gun regulation DOES work.  It's like something I read over that said "Chicago has a gun problem.  It's called Indiana."  Unless we do want to look at something nationally regional laws won't have a tremendous effect.

We agree: Nothing will stop all of this violence.  But we have to stop letting that be the reason we do not try to limit it as much as we can.