An executive order issued Friday by President Donald Trump that aims to rollback gun control measures instituted by his predecessor received swift rebuke from critics who said the order should be seen as a giveaway to the profit-hungry gun industry at the expense of a society ruthlessly harmed by gun violence year after year after year.
None of those policies stop mass shootings. They’re just virtue signaling from anti-2a groups.
Do something meaningful for once that doesn’t target trying to magically make murder somehow more illegal.
Put the time and political capital into things that actually would change our society.
Single payer healthcare, so people can get mental health without going broke and avoiding it. Or turning to suicide, which is 2/3rds of our firearm deaths.
Reform prisoners, not lock them away for forever and rob them of ever being a productive member of society.
Get rid of for profit prisons, so we’re not turning an addict into someone who gets out of prison and can’t get a job because they carry a felony.
End qualified immunity so the 1/40 gun deaths aren’t from police who just kill people and get away with it.
Increase our school funding 10 fold. Build more schools, so class sizes can be 10-15 kids max per teacher. Not 30-40+
Solidify abortion rights into law, why the hell it’s been left to the courts for so long is insane. More unwanted children doesn’t create mentally stable people.
The list of shit that actually could stop mass shootings is a mile long…but bullshit laws aren’t going to have any effect on it. Remember, Columbine happened during the AWB
Agree with doing all that.
I still feel like some more regulations and laws could help. It’s simply too easy to purchase firearms in the USA. Personally I’d like to see it more akin to how we license and regulate motor vehicles. I want people to need a license to purchase a firearm, and that license includes getting firearm safety instruction, a background check that’s better than the current one we have in place, and requiring a range qualification too.
It would really help if people were better educated on guns in general, at the very least I think it’d help cut down on accidental gun deaths and suicides.