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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.
More guns is the solution, like in schools. Arm the custodians! Arm the vice-principals! Arm the unarmed!
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.
You know how many babies get abducted from hospitals?! Arm them too!
Oh shit, better do nothing then.
Not what i said.
Just have the same beuracroracy you have for vehicles. Yearly registration. And same licensing as liquor. Only licensed sellers.
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.
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.
No, I say illegal, not harder to get.
Yes and that's why we're all making fun of you now.