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>>hhs+(OP)
It's a problem entirely made up from America's insistence on guns. IMHO that's like when you have a website that serves a few requests per second, and then someone has the bright idea of using Kafka and Kubernetes because reasons, and now you have a horrible mess that requires multiple developers to support and, instead of questioning the original technical decision, everybody instead piles up technical "solutions."

At least nobody actually says "The founding engineers knew everything, our job is protect their original technical decisions, because otherwise our great company will fall."

Regulate guns and all these problems go away. As a bonus, you'll find out they were neither necessary nor useful for defending your rights.

>>yongji+ay
> Regulate guns and all these problems go away.

Firearms are regulated in the United States. Quite heavily, in fact. This goes back to the National Firearm Act of 1934, carries through the Gun Control Act of 1968, then loops in the Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986 (which included the famous Volkmer-McClure amendment that all but outlawed fully automatic weapons for civilians) and runs through at least the Brady Act of 1993. And that's without getting into the smorgasbord of state, county, and municipal laws that also apply.

The idea that the US is still living in the Wild West era with regards to firearms is a complete myth.

> As a bonus, you'll find out they were neither necessary nor useful for defending your rights.

That's not an experiment I'm willing to indulge in personally. As the old saying goes "I'd rather have my guns and not need them, than need them and not have them."

>>mindcr+0z
There are more civilian guns than civilians in the US.

>>rhubar+6P
There are more guns than people in this country yet only around 1/3rd of the population owns guns. About 14% of gun owners or roughly 3% of the US population owns between 8 and 170 guns. These "super" gun owners account for the majority of "extra" weapons floating around in society. And largely these people aren't the problem. I don't think we need to enable their obvious obsession, but they aren't the cause of mass shootings. It's the proliferation of weapons in the suburbs for "home defense" that leads to more senseless deaths.

And gun owners do a really shit job of defending their fetish. Because honestly that's all it is. None of these clowns are "defending democracy" or whatever other bullshit they spew about why gun ownership is "sO nEcEsSaRy"! And they lie constantly about what gun control is. They always frame it as "they are taking all of our guns away from us!" yet even in the most gun controlled countries there are paths to gun ownership for hunting and sport. It a group of very disingenuous and whiny people who do a lot of damage to our country.