Minors... two teenage kids were the KC Chiefs Parade shooters... where are we going wrong?

[WarGamer]

Yes, I know... "it's the guns"

BUT.

What kind of kids are running around with stolen guns... shooting at each other?? Gangs...

Kansas City has issues...

2023 set an ALL TIME HIGH for murders.

More than 10% of homicide victims are under 18

What is society doing wrong?

If you can arrest the school shooter parents... arrest these "parents"

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Spit balling here.

Make weapons of war illegal for the general public to buy or possess? As an originalist, I support muskets and even more evolutionary single shot rifles.

[WarGamer]

3. So they wouldn't use handguns?

[Kaleva]

5. We won the war on drugs that way

By making them illegal. Prohibition was a smashing success.

If there's a demand, there will be a supply.

Convince society to turn away from guns and the problem is solved. But that is probably undoable in America.

[msongs]

2. 99.9999999999999 per cent of kids are not shooting up parades. not a society problem IMO

[RockRaven]

6. You can't just handwave the actual answer with an "I know, but..."

Because the answer IS "it's the guns"

The ubiquity of guns IS the thing society is doing wrong. There will still be fights/attacks/crime etc without guns everywhere. But they will be less deadly, and reach fewer bystanders.

If there had been a fistfight or even a stabbing at this parade, it would still be unfortunate. But most of the two dozen bystanders wouldn't be in the hospital, and that radio lady would be alive, if a couple of puffed up knuckleheads had gone after each other with blades.

[Deuxcents]

7. I heard a talking head say that maybe we shouldn't have big events with so many people anymore

Because of the shootings. Not a peep about..maybe we should get serious about the out of control gun violence and the massive amount of guns so easily obtained. O, no. They’re not considering that option..it’s too obvious.

[Swede]

8. The USA has stop having public events during a shooting.

It's the only way.

[Initech]

9. What is society doing wrong? Two words: Fox News

And AM hate radio I'm sure plays a part. What the parents watch and listen to absolutely has an effect on the kids. If the parents watch Fox 24/7 and listen to AM hate radio nonstop, don't be surprised when the kids turn out to be gun toting neo Nazis who have a grudge against the government.

[WarGamer]

11. I'm not sure if Rush Limbaugh and Fox News are (were) big in these kids neighborhood.