Hmm, so Americans are fundamentally violent people? Is it something in the water?
Americans have far less financial security and worse social safety nets than virtually all other developed countries.
And desperate people make desperate decisions.
That seems like a stretch. Are all public safety debates (cigs, seat belts, covid, etc) a similar distraction, or just this one?
Obviously not. The data is incredibly clear in the case of cigarettes, as well as COVID. Both of which kill far more than guns in the US, and at FAR higher rates, without any utility at all. That kind of consistent and reliable supporting evidence simply does not exist in the gun debate. Nore do the incentives for lawmakers and the wealthy align the same way.
Regarding seat belts, it's incredibly clear that you should not be allowed to drive with an unsecured load. If you are in an accident, or even break quickly, your unsecured becomes a projectile. You, without a seatbelt, become a threat to those around you.
Laws requiring secured loads in public areas are simply common sense, and don't put undue burden upon the population. Like not allowing people to shoot guns in cities.
We have already seen. We have more gun control than at any time in our history and those restrictions haven't prevented violent crime rates or gun crime from increasing. It's very clearly ineffective.
Maybe they don't work because they aren't strong enough.
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Well, as they've gotten stronger they've apparently been less effective. At least, if access to guns is what we're attributing violent crime and murder to.
To my knowledge there is no mechanism with which we can realistically restrict access to guns nationwide more strongly than they are currently, at least not within the next few decades. In fact, it appears there is a better than even chance that those restrictions will be found unconstitutional by the supreme court.
By what mechanism do you think greater national restrictions can happen?