REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE and MASS MURDER in America: a reasonable solution?

A few good ideas in there for sure.   Dr.Strangelove added some good ideas too, and people don't realize how this would generate revenues and jobs!

  I would love to see such a "bullet tax" implimented.....with exceptions noted.

obvious          doing nothiing accomplishes nothing to reduce these horrible events

the case i see being made here is making efforts to reduce the violence     i am fairly certain we all understand nothing will totally eliminate all violence    

but every effort should b made to reduce it  

HEADLINES today ...

Dumbass GOP Senator Berated
For Defending Slow Police Response
To Uvalde Massacre

Republican Sen. John Cornyn defended law enforcers, 
who waited nearly an hour to storm Robb Elementary School
as children were being massacred inside.

J. Harvey, HUFFPOST -

According to the non-profit Mental Health America,
TEXAS ranks 51st for access to mental health care
(based on treatment access, quality, cost, insurance)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott *defunded* his own
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
(they handle mental health in the state)
each of the past two years.

2021    -$117,347,952
2022    -$93,382,076

Per an in depth CNN review,

in the years 2009 - 2018 the U.S. recorded 288 school shootings

By comparison to other countries who also have mental health issues to deal with but who have much stricter gun laws:

2  Canada
2  France
1  Germany
0  Japan
0  Italy
0  UK

 In a gun-related gaffe Biden claimed that 9mm guns are "high caliber weapons" that can blow a person's lung out of their body.

Recalling a visit to a New York trauma hospital, Biden said doctors showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds, and "They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body," Biden said. "So, the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting," Biden added. "Remember, the constitution was never absolute."

 Robby Starbuck, a congressional candidate shared Biden's video and wrote, "A 9MM bullet blows the lung out of the body" has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. Joe Biden is an imbecile. Why do the people who know the least about guns want to yap their gums the most about guns? What part of "Shall NOT be infringed" do they not get?"

Disgusting

That should always be the whole point.

I had not given any thought that such a plan would actually increase employment  but it's logical this would occur in both private and public sectors.

Republican bonehead, Ron Johnson
Literally Blames Uvalde Shooting
on ‘CRT’ 

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) not only said this week that he opposes any new gun laws to address mass shootings, but he also blamed critical race theory for the horrific Uvalde school massacre that left 19 young children dead.

“The mainstream media is Domestic Terrorists.”

That’s a tweet the Republican Party of Arizona posted
Tuesday afternoon. It was later deleted, but not before
the account doubled down in another tweet (also deleted).

It’s absurd and meant to fire up a base that lives for this
kind of nonsense. But let’s be clear here, there is never
a good time to say something this stupid.
Right now is an incredibly bad time.

The country is still reeling from the murders
of 19 school children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

Ron Johnson is a fucking idiot.

People can laugh and jeer about the likelyhood of all these proposals ever making serious headway, but under analysis making it all more expensive and inconvenient has strong merit and they could work and solve a huge portion of the problems. 

But alas no political will.

Banning sale of "body armour" to citizens without government approval (normally only for police, military, security, and first responders) is another that should be added.

Midnight1 brought that one up and it's a good point.

  House member plans to introduce a bill that would hit AR-15s with a 1,000% tax

INSIDER -

Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, wants to impose a 1,000% excise tax on such semiautomatic rifles.

"What it's intended to do is provide another creative pathway
to actually make some sensible gun control happen,"
Beyer told Insider.

New AR-15-style guns cost anywhere from $500 to over $2,000 depending on location, NBC News reported. That means a 1,000% tax on the weapons would add $5,000 to $20,000 to their final sales prices — and would probably keep them out of reach from many younger Americans.

According to a CBS News poll, 44% of Republicans say that Americans just “have to accept” mass shootings.

What the fvck is wrong with these people?

Sadly, second amendment has been so misinterpreted that some people believe gun violence is part of freedom.  But many countries with stricter gun control have more freedom than the US.  Polls also show misguided people believe Trump's claim about stolen election despite lack of evidences.  They rather believe conspiracy theories instead of the truth.

Please, tell us more about this...

Where are people trying to move to get more freedom then they may have in the US?

I’m more interested in how the second amendment has been ‘so misinterpreted’.  I also didn’t realize there was a big ‘conspiracy’ to get people to accept gun violence is part of freedom.  Unless this is a Democrat-led conspiracy, so they do not have to punish the folks that commit crimes — especially, gun crimes.  

Just for good measure, mention Trump somehow to ‘emphasize’ your point some way?  No clue what those two thoughts have to do with each other.  Wow.  Could have at least picked two somewhat related conspiracy theories.  Because for sure Republicans do not believe this ‘theory’ of having to accept gun violence.  

A better theory would have been that the Left has been led to believe it is okay to keep criminals on the streets to commit gun violence and then more gun violence.  

Or the ‘theory’ that the Left actually believes making it harder for law-abiding citizens to have guns — will somehow deter the real criminals with guns?   

Now those I could see related, maybe.  

Yeah.  I’m thinking that is one of the least informed paragraphs I have ever read.  

Were you attempting to answer the part in bold?  Or were you also just throwing out something that had nothing related to what he said?

Now you see how the left operates their bots...side note: did covers sell out to fakebook and twater?? I think I recall someone saying covers sold out which would explain how the big dogs are trying to sensor and minipulate perception through bots like third. You can ask the bot questions all day, they'll never respond. They're not programmed to answer, unless they created MrWhatADork on here.

It appears making it much more expensive could be gaining some traction.

As it should, if  we are serious about *reducing* gun violence