Terrorism, hopefully, will never rack up the kind of body count regular Americans do. Similarly, mass shootings account for a smaller proportion of gun violence than garden-variety gun violence. This is elementary.
We know that a higher proportion of Black people are murdered, and they're being killed by other Black people (most homicide is intra-racial). Also elementary.
So... what's driving it and what's the solution?
The answer is elementary. Less guns equals less gun fatalities.
If we start now maybe we will make some progress by the end of the century. If we don't, expect nothing to change. Just because the solution seems almost impossible doesn't mean that it isn't the proper one.
My stepdad is ashamed to wear his NRA shirt in public now. That is a start. A giant public awareness (and shaming?) campaign to try and convince more people to give up their guns. I've changed my stance on guns and I no longer own one, others can too.
But how much more will it take to shame them? How many more deaths? News stories aren't enough. No, I'm talking about a massive public campaign unlike anything we've ever seen.
Once enough people feel the same way we can become more aggressive in the effort to get rid of them. It's a very long term goal.
There I said it out loud. Everyone says it's impossible to get rid of guns, I say we should try anyways. It's the only solution that I can see.
Yes, there are a lot of hurdles but we either work harder towards it, much harder, or forget it. Registering guns, counting bullets, it ain't gonna help. We need to focus all that BS into one campaign and one solution.
We quickly developed a vaccine to a deadly virus. We can do amazing things when we are forced to. We need to get people to realize we have reached that point with guns.
Seems like Fantasy Land. We can't even get people to see that a criminal jerkoff is not fit to be President. How do we convince them? Ya, I know.
But again, what other solution is there?
Oh well just an idea to work towards, and a very long term one. Sounds crazy, I do know this, but don't laugh if you don't have a better answer.
