Quote from: [cancerblack] on May 25, 2022, 09:29:02 PMWhich unfortunately, all the sensible gun control law in the world can't prevent. It's a long term poverty issue more than anything.
I'm all for good gun control measures but the last sentence nails it. You can have guns and not go on a rampage. You can have severe mental health problems and not harm another person. You can have a gun AND mental health problems and not shoot up a school or a shopping centre.
Everyone looks for quick fixes but the problem is the whole thing is rotten to the core. Minimum wage is pathetic, it's cheaper to die than visit a doctor, people are constantly telling you your problems are some marginalised group's fault, they're forcing people to have babies they can't afford forcing an unending cycle of poverty and desperation, and on top of all of this you've got centuries of fetishising guns as a way of solving all your problems.
The US has had 288 school shootings. The next highest country is I think Germany. With 8.
It's not a gun problem, it's not a mental health problem, it's a USA problem.