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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
It's undeniable that while a culture shift would obviously help, immediate barrier to ownership, purchasing, and licensing beyond what currently exists would see tangible results as well.
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I totally agree. But realistically, that sort of change is only going to happen incrementally. There are 300 million guns in the country - the culture shift is going to be a decades-long process. There's no overnight fix. So the implementation of new licensing and purchasing restrictions that are relatively benign seems like a good place to start, as well as some measure (I'm open to ideas) that will allow us to look at the statistics for school shootings next year and declare a political win. That is, "there was one per week before, and that dropped to one every three weeks" would be a victory at this point.
From some people all you hear about is an assault weapon ban. I'm fine with banning high-capacity magazines and bump stocks and even AR-15s, I don't care, but it seems like that route is asking for a lot of political headache for not really a ton of upside in terms of "lives saved".