Re: "Fashionable" bulletproof attire for school students. Yup, it's a market now.
So what exactly are you suggesting specifically in the name of gun control? There already is gun control, and as far as I know, it's about as tight as it was 50 or so years ago, and the relentless shootings have only emerged in the last decades. Considering that gun control has only been more enforced over the years, alongside the fact more people have died in the past two decades than in the entire 20th century, I would assume that gun control hasn't been quite as successful as a preventative measure.
Gun control has been pretty lax in the U.S. actually and it differs state by state.
Some things that could prevent gun violence are universal background checks, stricter standards, such as not selling guns to people who are on terrorist watch-lists, ammunition cap, mandatory training and mental evaluation on a yearly basis, and a recurring check-up to see if you still possess the gun you bought to make sure it wasn't sold illegally.
Because then all states would have the same law which would close the loophole of going to another state with lax gun laws to obtain a firearm.
I wasn't basing diversity as the sole causation, just part of the whole underlying contributing factors. One such as the mass shootings being broadcasted widely and the killers being more popular than their victims, for starters.
That's a media problem, not a legislative problem. Even still, the media has toned down the amount of exposure they give to the shooters after that issue was raised about a year or two ago.
But that's only what worked for Australia. America isn't Australia, as much as both share similarities in legislation and laws. And the mostly ignored part of this is since the Second Amendment, gun control in the US has only ever been tightened, and each time it was, violence escalated. So what exactly does that say about gun control as the primary and ultimate solution? There is already an enforced regulation in place for ensuring not just anyone can get a gun, especially law rebels. I.e background check.
Firstly, I never said that gun control was "the ultimate solution." Saying that Australia isn't America isn't an argument. Countries adopt other countries policies which have a similar or same effect, and when it comes to limiting access to guns, every country that has done so has successfully reduced gun violence.
Gun control wasn't really ever "tightened." It's pretty easy to get a gun in the U.S. because the government is so pro-gun. An example of this would be after the Las Vegas shooting, a week later the GOP proposed a legislation that would make it easier to acquire a silencer for your gun.
Saying that violence escalates after a regulation being passed is also misleading since this is a natural reaction that is only temporary. Citing Australia again, this happened to them as well. In the immediate after-effects of the gun regulations, the crime rate spiked, but after a few years it dropped substantially and has remained within a steady trend downward.
Have the government raise funds for building non mediocre health centres within all country districts and ensure that everyone gets proper treatment, especially adolescents that might be growing up under suspicious guidance, such as alcoholic parents, or even divorced single parents. Probing family histories and providing the needy families the required treatment through such a manner would produce good results in the long run. The child would have sufficient help to not contemplate killing, or resorting to drastic actions, should they feel themselves in an inevitable predicament. With less adolescents left to brood their problems alone, and come to bad conclusions, there will be less deaths, as they will receive help in the time they need it, before they grow out of the adolescent frustrations and melancholy. This is just one of many ways the problem could be addressed at its root.
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Ok, but you're not thinking of the macroscale. You can do what you proposed and have gun regulation on top of that. You're acting as if it has to be one or the other and can't be both. What you're proposing is also a separate issue that would require a healthcare system which people can afford.
We have over 300 million people living in the U.S. You can't keep track of all of the cases where people grow up in poor conditions that would make them violent.
One thing that's common with all shootings is the fact there was a gun involved. Having gun laws would be a universal effect, not just on an individual basis like what you're suggesting.
You also don't know what the "root" is. Not every shooter is mentally ill, poor, or have the same motivation. It differs in any case. The thing that they all have in common is that they were able to obtain firearms to kill people with.
