re: #193 Political Atheist

We are looking at this exactly backwards. Focusing on the day to day deaths will net more lives saved than focusing on Lanza and his ilk. Those crazy bastards will just gin up something else deadly like an IED.

Really cut gang activity and you cut gun deaths and reinvigorate the neighborhoods that need it most.

BBABL

I agree. Another thing that is needed, then, is for it to be acknowledged that guns are hazards, they are risks, and urging people to get them or treat them as just another piece of sport fun is foolish. Most people don’t need guns, and yet we have this gun culture that basically says that everyone out there should be packing.

Crime is down, mass shootings are not a common event. The real gun problem we have in the US is accidents and suicides. They’re not a high rate compared to the number of gun owners, but the problem is that we have shitloads of gun owners, most of them with no actual need for the guns they have.

The sooner that we can change our gun culture from “Whoo hooo hold my beer and look at this” to “These are weapons, they deserve respect, and they are not toys”, the better. But there’s a gigantic cultural mound to scale there.