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Originally Posted by Burninator
There are lots of suggestions for how to solve the problem in the US and the solution they are going with is that of the simple minded ostrich. Bury their heads in the sand and hope the problem goes away on it's own.
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They are slowly getting there but a very large chunk of population will (1) outright refuse to actually read studies and data objectively and/or (2) are not capable of understanding the numbers.
But I do believe they will eventually get there. Something that wasn't put in this thread was the Dallas incident last week where a guy shot up a police station from an armored van and left a bunch of pipe bombs. 2 years ago after choking his mother and uncle he was arrested and had his guns confiscated. They gave the guns back after the charges were dropped (likely because family didn't want to testify against him) and those were what he used in the attack. In fact he had 3 previous domestic violence incidents and had uttered threats about shooting up schools etc in the past. Yet he had his guns given back.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
-Winston Churchill