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Here I'll fix our problem
Pay teachers more
Build more schools to reduce class sizes
Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day
Single payer healthcare
Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don't turn to suicide
Improve safety nets
End the war on drugs
End for profit prison system
End qualified immunity
Hey look gun violence has dropped like a hot rock...
But no please keep doing the same shit and spend political capital on shit a very large portion of the usa doesn't want.
While I agree with you, any politician with an R beside their name is going to actively obstruct everything you just listed.
So then it becomes what takes more political capital, one thing they'll fight tooth and nail or ten?
If the dems had a spine they'd use their antigun capital on getting single payer passed. It would probably cut gun deaths in half alone.
At the rate hospitals are going belly up after getting drained of cash, there won't be a health system left by the time any of this happens.
Just an FYI, you gotta add a blank line between each item if you want them to display like a list and not a giant run-on sentence. Assuming it's like reddit, you should be able to do bullet points with an asterix and a space before each item on the list if you're into that.
Would make your comment much more readable
Yea I wrote that in the AM without my brain having been fully awake lol fixed the formating cause that was a hot mess to read.
Turns out that some random Lemmy poster actually has better answers than both of the major political parties.
Pay people more. Make it really fucking hard to be a billionaire anywhere in the world.
You're gonna need to tax people's income for real. Comically that's the one thing from the 1950s USA they don't wanna MAGA. They want the racism, the sexism, the authoritarianism, the mcCarthyism .. but not the taxation that built roads.
I'm voting for this guy in November.
Civilized countries only have most of those and don't have the gun problem. It seems like you can get by with just a smart subset of this as a base.
Even just single payer would drastically help our citizens health
Public all day preschool and early childhood interventions. Retrain doctors to take people's conditions seriously and how to properly diagnose and give prescriptions.
Absolutely! Add in maternity/paternity leave that allows the parents to bond with their child for at least 6 months.
Ending the war on drugs doesn't. I disagree
Sorry. It's the exact opposite. Here in Australia we have a serious meth problem and we are full of assholes who are incredibly toxic and drugged up. Ending the war on drugs just makes addictive drugs even more accessible, so people are more likely to try them and encourage others to do so
Highly addictive drugs should not be legalized, and it certainly isn't the reason for school shootings and such
What protects us is gun laws, and you guys need stronger ones
The war on drugs is a euphemism. Ending It doesn't mean stop drug legislation, it means stop putting parents in jail for 10 years and putting their kids in care because they smoked weed and the kid accidentally told a cop when the cop visited their school and told them if they didn't rat out their parents something worse would happen.
Correct. The majority of our prison is non violent drug offenders, who lose their children, which end up in bad situations...which cause some of them to turn to gangs for that family role. It's a cycle that feeds violence, and the most fucked up part, is it drastically effects minorities more than anyone else.
They already changed that didn't they?
I was in denver 2 weeks ago, and didn't seem like anyone was going to jail for cannabis...
It didn't stop gun violence.
Gun violence has very little to do with drug legalisation. It seems like people are just tacking it on as something they want, but it seems fairly dishonest, especially since you guys are getting a lot of mass shootings at schools and such which clearly aren't related. It might only reduce the number of smaller shootings
Better gun control is the primary factor that stops gun violence in most countries. At this time, everyone in US treats them like toys and fashion accessories. So when someone is getting bullied or having a shitty week, its very easy for them to snap and react. Here in Australia, they can't easily react by grabbing a gun.
We pulled the majority of them out of circulation for a reason.. And it worked
You in Australia did not have anywhere near the firearms we have in civ hands. Even then, the forced confiscation you did only 60% turned in their firearms. You know what %60 leaves here in the states? Over 100 million firearms in civ hands.
The drug wars target mainly minorities which cause parents to go to jail, and kids to turn to gangs. It absolutely has an effect on our gun violence. Which the mass majority of our violence comes from is gang related, not random shootings like you hear in the news.
This isn't a hard concept to understand imho.
I agree, the amnesty didn't turn in ALL firearms. That's completely missing the point
HOWEVER.. The entire point of the amnesty, is to make it illegal for ownership of certain firearms, make them illegal to resell, etc., but you give people incentive to give up and make money from the ones they shouldn't own
Over time, you end up with far less guns in circulation.
That's what happened here in Australia.
You might still have a huge amount of firearms, but the aim isn't to solve the problem overnight. But, it saves a huge amount of the problem immediately, and over time, it solves the issue..
It works.. It worked for us. You're playing the short game.
You're trying to argue that unless the solution is 100%, it isn't worth pursuing.
No, but we have some of the most effective protection against shootings in the world. So it would be silly to ignore a working solution. We don't have a lot of the things on that list
The issue is the antigun groups are targeting rifles. You know how many people are killed by rifles a year? 1.5-2.5k, this is all rifles and shotguns combined. You know how many people are killed by AR-15s a year? 50-100...yea the weapon of choice for murder here in the states is handguns. It's not about keeping people safe, it's about virtue signaling to their base.
Pandora's box is open here. There is no closing it
Not really, you all now have more guns in civ hands than before the ban. Ratio wise it's less but that's because you have more people.
Unless you plan on banning knives, which kill around 3.5k a year (yes that's correct more than all rifles and shotguns combined) then it's not about saving lives. It's about saving certain lives.
It worked for you, because you have safety nets. You don't have a shit ton of gangs and drugs flowing through the streets. You don't have cartels 4 foot from your boarder. You also don't have the population size we do.
No, I'm arguing that it's a solution that will not work for even 5%. As I have explained above, rifles which are the targets, make up basically nothing when it comes to firearm deaths. Yet they're the constant focus. If we're to fix our violence issue here in the USA, we need to help get people to stop being violent first.
You have some major ones on that list. You for one don't lock up everyone who is a non violent drug offender to the point that you create broken homes which fuels gang membership. You don't have qualified immunity either, which here in the USA, 1 in 40 of our gun deaths is by the police. (Yes you read that correctly, the police here kill on average 1k Americans a year via firearms). You have single payer healthcare, you give a shit about your citizens and have safety nets. We lack so much that it drives our citizens into poverty and creates prime circumstances for violence.
K-12 and colleges/universities are only the setting of ~12.8% of mass shootings.
Your just making speculative hyperbole about a nation a hemisphere away. Isolating any one factor as reducing crime is often near impossible. A downward trend following legislative can just as easily be attributed to other factors like a general decline in criminality over time or due to bettering economic conditions (among countless other factors).
Wow. Only 12%
Primary schools and secondary schools should be 0 lol
No one argues other. But you rebuke the notion that the war on drugs has any significance on the broader topic. Basing opinions on falsities.
In other words:
schools represent a vast minority of mass killings. Not to mention your baseless assertion that violence in schools must have no relationship to the war on drugs. As if the gangs that move them don't groom children to sell them for them.
Or do all that and ban private gun ownership. Yes amendments can be changed or removed.