plus violent crime is down a stuffload as is. we can have 10 fold more mass shootings per year and still be safer by thew decade then we were. its not even a big deal.
I think the single biggest factor when it comes to gun violence is the overall wealth inequality in the US. The vast majority of shootings are not the big, publicized ones, but the smaller ones that usually occur between minorities in poor neighborhoods.
Investing in better schools and more opportunities for poor young people is definitely the best strategy for lowering overall gun violence. Unfortunately, people like to hyper-focus on publicized incidents and feel-good solutions like trying to ban as many guns as possible. It's easier in the short-term but won't have any significant results.
pro gun control people go on and on about background checks. but they are already pretty thorough. i dont think they are aware that they are taking place.
The reason why I believe that gun control wouldn't have stopped the Orlando shooting is because the shooter already encountered difficulties purchasing firearms. The first guy that he went to buy from turned him away for being sketchy. And then, all he did was circumvent it by going to someone else. Same thing would probably have happened if he was stopped by law instead.
"Shooters brought an average of four weapons to each shooting; one carried seven guns. We don’t know how all the guns were acquired, but of the ones we know, 140 were obtained legally and 39 were obtained illegally."
Operating off of these statistics, you're probably assuming that a gun ban would have resulted in shooters having 140 less firearms, but that's not correct. Shooters will purchase guns through the most convenient channel available.
For instance, let's say that in 1919, 98% of the alcohol consumed in the United States was legal (made-up figures but probably close to reality). Did prohibition result in a 98% drop in alcohol consumption?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2sC29_XR88
Ban hairspray.
