It doesn't really matter how many lives are saved, whether it be 10 or 100, these are still human lives. Stricter laws, or even revising the 2nd amendment will definitely help this current state. The 2nd amendment was created as a hope that the United States becomes a strong and firm country that can use these weapons to secure and defend our people, i.e the military, which is why they made this amendment, but all it has done is the exact opposite of that. These weapons are not "securing" or defending anyone. They are harming us. People are afraid to revisit the 2nd amendment for the sole purpose that they don't want their constitutional rights to be distorted, but that is senseless logic when the purpose of guns has been lost.
Someone brings up the argument to ban guns from the US, so then the retort is to bring up a bunch of other items and tools as if those items were made to serve the same purpose as guns? So childish. Trucks, cars, and knives were not designed to kill. Yes, people choose to use them for their own twisted schemes, but they were never designed to kill. This obsession with the 2nd amendment, it's actually quite ironic that people will go so far as to defend and support the idea to bear arms, while not even fully understanding the meaning behind why it was even created or what the purpose of a gun is. Guns were never meant to defend, their sole purpose was made for war.
*The more reasonable course of action for solving this issue, if even a little, is to issue tighter background checks, mental health records, or if they have had any possible criminal records in the past.
In other countries such as Japan, Switzerland and Australia, gun violence and suicide rates are very low. Why? Because they have very strict and tighter gun control laws compared to the US. In Japan, I believe citizens are only allowed to carry a gun if they are hunting. This stereotype about the US being more naturally violent than other countries is not because we are more naturally violent, it's because our laws suck and we are too loose and ignorant with how we handle things here compared to other countries, which is why you don't see a maniac in Poland shooting up an elementary school with a pistol, or some scum in Italy killing 40 people in a night club. Here, just any normal citizen who is mentally healthy with no criminal records can just purchase a gun at the age of only 16, and even buy a rifle at just the age of 18(at least in my state). If you don't see anything wrong with this, then that is definitely a problem. Who even decides who is allowed to have a gun? Just being a normal citizen with no mental illness or bad records and over the age of 16 can get me a gun easily in my state.
And no, I'm not saying that doing something about guns will completely get rid of deaths, when we have shit organizations such as ISIS killing people with vehicles, but guns are definitely a MAJOR issue and has been in these past 3 years or so.
Someone brings up the argument to ban guns from the US, so then the retort is to bring up a bunch of other items and tools as if those items were made to serve the same purpose as guns? So childish. Trucks, cars, and knives were not designed to kill. Yes, people choose to use them for their own twisted schemes, but they were never designed to kill. This obsession with the 2nd amendment, it's actually quite ironic that people will go so far as to defend and support the idea to bear arms, while not even fully understanding the meaning behind why it was even created or what the purpose of a gun is. Guns were never meant to defend, their sole purpose was made for war.
*The more reasonable course of action for solving this issue, if even a little, is to issue tighter background checks, mental health records, or if they have had any possible criminal records in the past.
In other countries such as Japan, Switzerland and Australia, gun violence and suicide rates are very low. Why? Because they have very strict and tighter gun control laws compared to the US. In Japan, I believe citizens are only allowed to carry a gun if they are hunting. This stereotype about the US being more naturally violent than other countries is not because we are more naturally violent, it's because our laws suck and we are too loose and ignorant with how we handle things here compared to other countries, which is why you don't see a maniac in Poland shooting up an elementary school with a pistol, or some scum in Italy killing 40 people in a night club. Here, just any normal citizen who is mentally healthy with no criminal records can just purchase a gun at the age of only 16, and even buy a rifle at just the age of 18(at least in my state). If you don't see anything wrong with this, then that is definitely a problem. Who even decides who is allowed to have a gun? Just being a normal citizen with no mental illness or bad records and over the age of 16 can get me a gun easily in my state.
And no, I'm not saying that doing something about guns will completely get rid of deaths, when we have shit organizations such as ISIS killing people with vehicles, but guns are definitely a MAJOR issue and has been in these past 3 years or so.
