• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

    – Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023

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      I agree with him on that however I would say that leaving schools Anna universities as soft targets is idiotic, with so many veterans in America why not just pay a couple veterans per school ,university etc. And give them like a spare room with a decent camera system and arm them to only respond to violent threats to the school. Just my suggestion.

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          Sorry for the long comment, I’m saying that the second amendment is worth keeping but at the same time we could stop school shootings very easily with veterans in school, if we’re talking gang violence in the streets like how every weekend 20 people die in Chicago, maybe if the local mayors and DAs actually gave a fuck and cracked down on crime putting away the most violent offenders for long sentences. Maybe this shit would stop. I want sauce stat that if you take out the major cities and go to the Republican areas in the country sides in the suburbs and such the crime rate in America is much lower. I truly believe it’s time to crack down on crime in major cities and it’s not like the good people in those cities don’t want help from the police to stop all the bad behavior from what is most likely a very small percentage of the city.

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            20 people die in a weekend in Chicago because there are millions of people in Chicago. As a percent, you’re far safer there than in any red area. E.g. 3.2/100,000 gun deaths in Massachusetts, but it’s ten times higher in blood red Mississippi.

            300 cops in Uvalde couldn’t do anything against a teen with a rifle except wet themselves. What’s a Korean War vet with a M1 garand going to do that hundreds of currently employed tacticool police couldn’t do?

            Every other country has figured this out. Sorry if you don’t like the solution to the problem, but we’ve tried everything else. Especially ignoring it.

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              My other argument towards you, is this, we need a game plan that is realistic and getting rid of the second amendment is not going to happen anytime soon in the United States, it just fucking won’t. Getting rid of the Second Amendment is a pipe dream of Democrats.

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                Go far enough left and keep your guns but mental health seriously needs real spending, real solutions that are actually enacted. Fully funded, comprehensive health care, including mental, would solve most of our problems. Not overnight. But I guess within five years, the results would be astounding.

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                  I support bringing back mental institutions like they had in the old days but with modern over recite so that we don’t see the same abuse as before

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                Only worked for Australia and every other country that tried.

                Keep sticking your head in the sand, though. That’ll bring back those two kids who died in Colorado on Wednesday.

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              300 cops in Uvalde couldn’t do anything against a teen with a rifle except wet themselves

              Those cops were absolute cowards

              What’s a Korean War vet with a M1 garand going to do that hundreds of currently employed tacticool police couldn’t do?

              First of all the Korean war was 75 years ago I don’t think 100 year-old man is gonna be guarding a school anytime soon. Second of all the idea that there are people in that school that would act would deter most people, and I think that it would make a difference vs needing someone to call the police and then a slow response time with pussy cops, waiting for orders from their chief of police who’s busy eating a doughnut and taking a shit