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tacocat  ·  3356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How would you stop mass shootings?

I'd outlaw guns. Society moves at the pace of its slowest citizens and these fucks have ruined it for the responsible gun owners. That's the simple wildly implausible answer.

Say only outlaws will have guns? Yeah, outlaws with $34,000 lying around to buy what's now a $1,000 Bushmaster. Well, those people are mentally ill. That's the worst sidestep argument. Every country has mentally ill people and in every country it's hard to treat them. I'm mentally ill and it's hard to treat me. I know the system. So is it a coincidence that the country with the most liberal gun laws has the worst gun violence? It's a simple question with a seemingly simple answer but every time this happens the gun people look at every possible answer but guns to try to downplay the involvement of a "tool." It's not a tool, it's a weapon designed to kill things and suggesting otherwise is NRA semantic wordplay.

I'm sorry for people who like guns and can own them responsibly, but in my fantasy land, getting a gun would be like getting a medical cadaver, possible but not easy. Am I taking an extreme point, yes, but when the NRA doesn't even want the kind of rigor that goes into licensing a motor vehicle, pretty much every reform you throw out is well intended fantasy.