Nashville college freshman Jillian Ludwig dies after being hit by a stray bullet at a local park
Nashville college freshman Jillian Ludwig dies after being hit by a stray bullet at a local park
The alleged gunman, Shaquille Taylor, had previously been released for incompetence to stand trial in a separate shooting.
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For a time. But if you made it illegal to transfer a firearm by any means and set up a buy-back program where when gun owners died the government would claim the guns and provide fair compensation to the estate you could get rid of the guns without taking anyone's guns away. It would take decades, of course, but every day there would be few guns out there and, importantly, the young people that commit most gun violence would be the people with the hardest time getting and carrying one. You can't expect we'll solve a problem that took decades to metastasize overnight anyway.
So there are solutions. That's just one. We don't solve this problem not because we can't but because we don't have the will to.
I appreciate your optimism but standing here in red rural America I don’t think it will ever happen. There are an insane amount of guns here with more and more every day.
You'd be surprised what people are willing to let go of when they see children in their community being murdered. Doesn't matter what political spectrum you're on. There are major gun safety advocates who used to be 2a Rambo's who lost children and realized how wrong they were. It's just not worth it.
thats the problem with conservatives in the untied states though... their complete lack of empathy means they dont care to change until someone kills their kid
theres about 50% of us or more who also feel we should start sooner than later in solving for the gun issue... but now with trump banging his cult drum, and one of those drum beats is the '2nd amendment' were kinda fucked.
it would take a constitutional amendment, which we havent done in a long time... and with as useless as the 2 parties are right now, it wont happen.
Trump himself once said "take the guns first then figure it out." One of the only cool things he's said.
More than %50. Gun ownership is %50 for only white males. It is only about %15 for the rest of the country. Only one demographic has a culture of violence.