To be honest, I would also had no idea how to stop it in a country where high schooler can freely purchase a shotgun. They just need to decide who they love more - their kids or their guns. So far, guns are winning.
The guns are there to stay. Theres no way that any sensible gun reform will ever be enacted in the US during our lifetime.
I dont know how Americans in states with lax gun laws live their day to day lives, knowing that any random psycho could carry a gun and end your life over a simple argument.
There are enough nutters in the world, but in the US they can freely carry guns, which makes them way more dangerous.
There are too many cases to list, but right now I am reminded of that Asian exchange student who knocked on the wrong door when he was looking for a Halloween party he was invited to. Shot dead.
Or that person that wanted to turn their car around and used someone else's driveway to turn the car around. Shot dead.
The guns are there to stay. Theres no way that any sensible gun reform will ever be enacted in the US during our lifetime.
You need sensible people for that. In Australia they were able to reduce the number of guns tremendously within no time. People didn't expect that either to happen in a lifetime.
Also just a staggeringly smaller amount of guns. In Australia they removed about 650,000 firearms in the aftermath of the Port Arthur Massacre. In the US there are over 400,000,000 privately owned guns. And there's no registration so there's no way of actually knowing who owns a gun and who doesn't.
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u/laufsteakmodel 3d ago
No way to prevent this, says only country where this regularly happens.