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[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

We can make it harder to get a gun. But there are so many already in the US its difficult to rein that back in.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh shit, better do nothing then.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Not what i said.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

More guns is the solution, like in schools. Arm the custodians! Arm the vice-principals! Arm the unarmed!

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Tangential, I find the push to arm teachers so weird. I can only imagine the job offers. "Your job will require you to teach children, raise them and show kindness and compassion. Also you need to kill them if they start shooting."

[–] Staccato@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

"Also while working in war zones might come with danger pay, you're a teacher so we will pay you barely starvation wages and you'll have to buy supplies from your personal money."

Also, it's the same people who trust teachers with guns in the classroom that think teachers can't be trusted with books in the classroom.

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Arm all of the kids while we're at it. Only a good kid with a gun can stop a bad kid with a gun.

[–] Ghost33313@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know how many babies get abducted from hospitals?! Arm them too!

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I dunno about you and yours, but my babies come from the stork with arms

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Just have the same beuracroracy you have for vehicles. Yearly registration. And same licensing as liquor. Only licensed sellers.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Implement a buyback program like Australia did. They stopped the sales and paid above market value for any gun for a certain period of time. It works.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Australia had nowhere near the saturation of gun ownership America has, and the common firearms there were simpler and cheaper. A gun buy-back would be much more expensive.

Then there's the differences in public sentiment. It's pretty obvious the American right-wing would overwhelmingly refuse to sell their guns at any price, and they represent the majority of gun owners. With current lefty distrust of police and rising extremists in the right, left wing gun owners don't seem likely to willingly disarm either. If anything I've seen an uptick in leftists arming themselves.

But even if I'm wrong, a buy-back would do nothing if we don't stop the sales of new guns first which would require an amendment to the Constitution effectively repealing one of the bill of rights. That's pretty much the highest hurdle possible in the American government.