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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
It really isn't though. Sure I can't go and buy a full auto AR15/AK47 without a special license. However it's pretty easy for me to go buy semi-auto version of that which can also do a lot of damage. There are a few red flag laws like in Texas but they are easily gotten around by private trade, and that's true for most "Red" states. Often no waiting period either if you go to an actual store. It really varies a lot state to state.

>>EasyMa+CN
The 2019 Dayton shooter used a semi-automatic AR-15 and killed 9 people and wounded 17 others in the 30 seconds it took from his first shot fired to his death at the hands of police. 30 seconds to respond and kill the shooter. You cannot really ask for a more ideal response time than that. But 26 lives are directly impacted by those bullets, never mind the number of folks impacted because it was their loved ones being killed. All so conservatives can cosplay as freedom fighters at the shooting range.

>>tstrim+mZ
You don't think a motivated individual could kill and injure about as many people, in about as much time, by just driving a box truck into the waiting line in front of a popular night club, or something? I get what you're saying, but I still believe that the problem is the motivation / mental state of these people, not the specific tools they choose to act out their horrible vision.

>>mindcr+H11
We don't have an epidemic of people driving box trucks into schools to kill children, and parents don't run their children over with box trucks when they mistake them for an intruder in their home. The fact that people can still do horrible things to each other doesn't mean that we shouldn't make it harder. Also, how do you propose fixing the mental state of these people? Are you lobbying for increased funding of mental health programs in your area? Calling your senators? Volunteering your time to help those with mental health issues? Or are you just saying this problem is unsolvable despite the fact that almost every other country on earth has solved it?

>>jdkgoj+gn1
Is that a solution to a problem, or just a change in social mores? It solves the problem of people being dangerous with guns, by stopping them having guns. Same as with legs. Most crimes and dangerous actions are facilitated by the use of legs, so further harm reduction could be carried out by cutting everybody's legs off. And personally I'd support that, I never liked walking much anyway and it annoys me when people have busy lifestyles, but the plan won't get widespread support because it's against customary expectations. People enjoy, and expect to maintain, the use of their legs: they claim it's important.