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Originally Posted by ResAlien
That line of thinking is a part of the problem. It’s a defeatist attitude that any change must take decades and be incremental. The only reason that’s “true” is to protect the political careers of those in office. Meaningful gun control could be had tomorrow but no public servant is willing to risk their career for the greater public good. The rest of this culture argument is just noise. Australia is a perfect example, their gun culture was just as deeply ingrained as America and they managed to figure it out in about six weeks.
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It's the polarization of the US that prevents anything from happening. There could be gun control tomorrow. There could be universal basic healthcare tomorrow. There is plenty of money to go around. But neither side wants to 'give up' anything to the other with the paranoid fear and more will be lost. They are well entrenched.