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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In short, while America needs to do SOMETHING the "Just ban guns" crowd are infuriating in their naivety.

As someone that is firmly against the free access to guns I cannot agree that it is naivety.

You guys got a serious problem with gun violence, your children are dying in, quite frankly, absurd numbers.
And you keep on letting it happen for decades now.

I am not someone that says just banning the ownership of guns outright from one second to another is the best solution there is. Off course it's not.

But dude, even that strawman solution that pretty much noone actually proposes would be better than your status quo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Just ban guns" is the slogan for demonstrations. Any politician who is elected for doing that will obviously need to have a better plan. Usually such plans don't fit on a poster.

[–] Delphia 4 points 11 months ago

Im not American, I'm Australian. I have problems with anyone that wants to run around screaming for solutions that are impossible to implement. It might come from a good place but its just virtue signalling. That goes for people on both sides of any argument, the only thing it does is detracts from any meaningful dialogue on actual solutions.

The gun problem in the U.S is way more cultural than financial, but even if you take all the culture and set it aside like it isnt the core of the issue even the basic numbers of doing a buyback and compensating every person and industry now out of work becomes an insane number very quickly.