We’re having this same discussion in Australia, where the number of guns you can own is now being restricted quite heavily. However, the limits are quite reasonable for people who need it for farm work, sports shooting, hunting etc. I’d hate to be a collector, because that might not be a thing any more.
As a country though we’re making the choice to prioritise lives over convenience, as we often do. And for that I am happy.
As a country though we’re making the choice to prioritise lives over convenience, as we often do. And for that I am happy.
Except restricting gun ownership isn’t necessary for that. The motivations for gun crimes are the same as any violent crime, in that they’re largely done out of desperation. Because of that, your best way to reduce gun crime is to reduce violent crime, which is done by improving people economic conditions: nationalize healthcare, have strong workers rights, properly tax the wealthy, improve environmental quality.
As you can probably tell, the US really sucks at what I described, hence the higher rates of violence. What’s frustrating is that Europe did fix them, but also restricted access to guns and continually (and incorrectly) points to that as the reason they have little violent crime.
Also, another thing to note is that a lot of gun control proponents tend to point solely to “gun crime” not “violent crime”. That’s disingenuous because they’re only looking at the methods, not the actual motivations
We’re having this same discussion in Australia, where the number of guns you can own is now being restricted quite heavily. However, the limits are quite reasonable for people who need it for farm work, sports shooting, hunting etc. I’d hate to be a collector, because that might not be a thing any more.
As a country though we’re making the choice to prioritise lives over convenience, as we often do. And for that I am happy.
Except restricting gun ownership isn’t necessary for that. The motivations for gun crimes are the same as any violent crime, in that they’re largely done out of desperation. Because of that, your best way to reduce gun crime is to reduce violent crime, which is done by improving people economic conditions: nationalize healthcare, have strong workers rights, properly tax the wealthy, improve environmental quality.
As you can probably tell, the US really sucks at what I described, hence the higher rates of violence. What’s frustrating is that Europe did fix them, but also restricted access to guns and continually (and incorrectly) points to that as the reason they have little violent crime.
Also, another thing to note is that a lot of gun control proponents tend to point solely to “gun crime” not “violent crime”. That’s disingenuous because they’re only looking at the methods, not the actual motivations