Wholesale banning of guns due to incidents would be like the wholesale banning of cars due to automobile deaths. I wouldn't want to be the person responsible for looking in every garage in america for a contraband car, much less handguns, which are far smaller and more dangerous.
Like it or not, guns are here to stay in America. Like free speech, they are constitutionally protected. Not one politician wanting to get re-elected will ever vote to get them banned. So, guns stay. What's next?
I think that user /u/Qukatt is a lot further along on this topic. We have to look at the individual. What happened to him? What made him snap in such a way to force him to want to harm so many others?
Men in Western society are in a terrible position. Societal pressures from all sides create this sort of creature. Have your genitals clipped at birth. Show no emotions to others, file for selective service or be fined tens of thousands and spend years in prison, get a good job and push hard for every penny so you can find a woman, buy expensive things have a wonderful house and provide for others, work until the day you die.
If you hurt, you suck it up. If you start feeling depressed, you suck it up. If you need to talk, you shut your damn mouth and get back to work. Lots of people can survive, even thrive, in this sort of environment. Not every one can. Lots need help but aren't getting it due to the deplorable nature of Mental Health in the States.
Improve Mental Health, lessen societal pressures, and guys like this vanish. It's a lot harder than banning guns, but it saves a lot more people in the long run.
Don't get me wrong, i'm still in strong favour of proper gun control. No-one needs automatic/semi-auto weapons, no-one needs more than a couple of personal weapons.
Going on your car parallel: it makes sense to have an intense training stage, it makes sense to licence people who want a firearm, it makes sense to make it mandatory for them to have a firearm insurance that gets paid out to victims if you are at fault in accidentally or unlawfully discharging your weapon. It makes sense to enforce the rules you already have with regards to felons owning weapons, with regards to them being unsecured around the house.
Stealing a car, joyriding, driving without insurance or a licence or while banned all gets you in the shit.
Wholesale banning of guns due to incidents would be like the wholesale banning of cars due to automobile deaths. I wouldn't want to be the person responsible for looking in every garage in america for a contraband car, much less handguns, which are far smaller and more dangerous.
Like it or not, guns are here to stay in America. Like free speech, they are constitutionally protected. Not one politician wanting to get re-elected will ever vote to get them banned. So, guns stay. What's next?
I think that user /u/Qukatt is a lot further along on this topic. We have to look at the individual. What happened to him? What made him snap in such a way to force him to want to harm so many others?
Men in Western society are in a terrible position. Societal pressures from all sides create this sort of creature. Have your genitals clipped at birth. Show no emotions to others, file for selective service or be fined tens of thousands and spend years in prison, get a good job and push hard for every penny so you can find a woman, buy expensive things have a wonderful house and provide for others, work until the day you die.
If you hurt, you suck it up. If you start feeling depressed, you suck it up. If you need to talk, you shut your damn mouth and get back to work. Lots of people can survive, even thrive, in this sort of environment. Not every one can. Lots need help but aren't getting it due to the deplorable nature of Mental Health in the States.
Improve Mental Health, lessen societal pressures, and guys like this vanish. It's a lot harder than banning guns, but it saves a lot more people in the long run.
Don't get me wrong, i'm still in strong favour of proper gun control. No-one needs automatic/semi-auto weapons, no-one needs more than a couple of personal weapons.
Going on your car parallel: it makes sense to have an intense training stage, it makes sense to licence people who want a firearm, it makes sense to make it mandatory for them to have a firearm insurance that gets paid out to victims if you are at fault in accidentally or unlawfully discharging your weapon. It makes sense to enforce the rules you already have with regards to felons owning weapons, with regards to them being unsecured around the house.
Stealing a car, joyriding, driving without insurance or a licence or while banned all gets you in the shit.