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I think it's pretty clear that there is a correlative relationship between gun control frameworks and the prevalence of gun deaths. I think people who disagree with this are ideologues who care more about their side of the debate winning than for facts. Personally, I'm not a gun guy, but I also don't particularly care about gun rights, except to the extent that I'm anti-death... and I'm pretty sure we're all supposed to be on that team.
Now, in the USA, it's a bit more complicated because there already exists a situation where there are 300 million guns in circulation. Hence, banning all guns doesn't make any sense; it's a far more complex problem. But the rhetoric that will inevitably be used by politicians isn't complex or nuanced, it will simply be, "see, it doesn't help".
Having to listen to that sort of predictable stupidity is going to be extremely exasperating.
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I think the point here is gun control will not prevent mass killings. Not completely. This happened in Canada where gun control has been around forever and yet this still occurs. This still happens in Europe and even occurs in Asia but more often with knives.
What has changed? In the US up until 1934 anyone could legally buy a machine gun and in 1968 you could still order a gun from a catalog and have it mailed to your house but people were not snapping and shooting up schools or their places of work. There will always be crimes of passion or rage and people will harm each other with any weapon they can find but this current trend of shooters angry at society started in 1984. Gun controls have incrementally been tightened but the events are still increasing. In China we are seeing people snapping and killing kids in schools and on subways with knives. When what changed in society that prompted this is identified is when a working solution to this issue will be found. If you are looking for a correlation we may want to add in public attitudes and funding for mental health as well as gun control frameworks. I am sure there is room on both sides for work in that area.
As you said gun control is "complicated" in the US but if people instead of using them as a way to fuel their political tribe, united towards funding mental health we would actually get some good out of these terrible events
When your first thought is that your arguments might be damaged more so than the tragedy i think you might be an ideologue.