Well here is my ideas for curbing gun crime.
Economics- Gun crime in general can be linked to poverty. The economically depressed often are forced to turn to crime. We need to get the economy resurrected again....the economy that allows for a rising tide that raises all ships, not just some ships. We can have that debate without wading into a discussion on stripping away the Bill of Rights.
Crime- We can certainly do some criminal justice reform. I am all for ending the drug war. It worked for prohibition. The ending of prohibition along with a stabilization of the American economy(to a degree) did more to curb violent crime than the 1934 NFA.
Foreign Policy- We need to stop fighting wars we either A. Should not be involved in and B. Ones we are not willing to properly see an end to. This of course will help curb recruitment of terrorists as we will win the peace along with the war. We can tie this to more stringent and efficient immigration policies. We need a less porous system and we probably should re institute quotas for certain regions of the world with terrorism/massive organized crime problems.
Mental Health- In the 1960's instead of fixing our system of mental health institutions, we simply shut them down. People that were dangerous and used to be removed from society were being put back out there with little or no treatment or oversight. Those that seek help often find themselves out in the cold. We have a lot of depressed, anxious, and desperate people out there these days. They lose hope and some of them snap and lose their minds. Along the way they may have sought help and not found any...so when they go off their rocker, they lash out hurting themselves and/or others.
All of these problems are known social and economic drivers of violence. If we fix some or all of them we will see a much steeper drop in gun crime which is already down 50% from its peak in 1993. About half of all gun related deaths are suicides. Around 1% is mass shootings. We should probably start trying to cure the disease (drivers) instead of just treating the symptoms (gun control)
Economics- Gun crime in general can be linked to poverty. The economically depressed often are forced to turn to crime. We need to get the economy resurrected again....the economy that allows for a rising tide that raises all ships, not just some ships. We can have that debate without wading into a discussion on stripping away the Bill of Rights.
Crime- We can certainly do some criminal justice reform. I am all for ending the drug war. It worked for prohibition. The ending of prohibition along with a stabilization of the American economy(to a degree) did more to curb violent crime than the 1934 NFA.
Foreign Policy- We need to stop fighting wars we either A. Should not be involved in and B. Ones we are not willing to properly see an end to. This of course will help curb recruitment of terrorists as we will win the peace along with the war. We can tie this to more stringent and efficient immigration policies. We need a less porous system and we probably should re institute quotas for certain regions of the world with terrorism/massive organized crime problems.
Mental Health- In the 1960's instead of fixing our system of mental health institutions, we simply shut them down. People that were dangerous and used to be removed from society were being put back out there with little or no treatment or oversight. Those that seek help often find themselves out in the cold. We have a lot of depressed, anxious, and desperate people out there these days. They lose hope and some of them snap and lose their minds. Along the way they may have sought help and not found any...so when they go off their rocker, they lash out hurting themselves and/or others.
All of these problems are known social and economic drivers of violence. If we fix some or all of them we will see a much steeper drop in gun crime which is already down 50% from its peak in 1993. About half of all gun related deaths are suicides. Around 1% is mass shootings. We should probably start trying to cure the disease (drivers) instead of just treating the symptoms (gun control)
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