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In reply to the discussion: Is there REALLY ANY WAY to end gun violence [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)6. Get to the root causes, which lays within the person, and focus on that instead of tools
only 1% (a little less) of gun owners use their guns in crimes, so 99% are not doing bad things with them.
Focus on the 1% and their issues and not on the 99%.
People use guns for sports (we have an olympic shooting team and junior shooting teams), hunting, fishing protection (not allowed to post protection stories in GD, so if you save someone's life with a gun it needs to go elsewhere. Unless that someone is the US government or police), collecting, and so on.
MOST don't do anything bad with their guns, but folks like hype and to focus on the few and not the many (kind of how the rw does with muslims, same tactic we decry on the one hand and rush to embrace on the other).
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Maybe not. Which means the ultimate 'solution' is jobs, infrastructure and health care.
randome
Sep 2013
#3
Get to the root causes, which lays within the person, and focus on that instead of tools
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#6
And yet - there are already laws to deal with them right? We don't ban cars or alcohol
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#16
But drunk driving accidents are a small part of the toll alcohol takes on society
hack89
Sep 2013
#19
If the US were in line with the rest of the civilized world, things would be drastically different.
DanTex
Sep 2013
#7
exactly. We are behind most other Western countries in just about every area you can think of and
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#20