Def a men-with-guns problem. You don't see women with access to the exact same firearms doing what men do with them at scale (mass-shootings, domestic violence killings, assassinations, etc.).
What do you think of this? My senator, Chris Murphy, has been trying to *solve* the loneliness crisis in America. It’s interesting, but idk how government involvement will be received in a lot of the places in which the crisis is at its worst.
Here’s a POLITICO piece on it from last year. There are a bunch of others and videos of Murphy talking about it. It will be great if they can figure out a way to get people involved with each other irl again.
People are always going to slip through the cracks of programs like that. Even during the national AWB of ‘94-‘04 we had: North Hollywood Shooting, Columbine, and the DC Sniper, and this was at a time when the modern loneliness problem didn’t exist and AWs were restricted. Before the AWB expired there were something like 10,000 AR-15s in circulation. Now there are 20,000,000 in circulation. Ain’t no putting that genie back into the bottle.
Yeah, there would have to be a MASSIVE buyback campaign and I am not sure if the federal government would have enough money to compensate people for what they think their guns are worth.
True. But these morons don’t think like that. Big man must have big gun to feel like bigger man. ‘Murica…
Def a men-with-guns problem. You don't see women with access to the exact same firearms doing what men do with them at scale (mass-shootings, domestic violence killings, assassinations, etc.).
What do you think of this? My senator, Chris Murphy, has been trying to *solve* the loneliness crisis in America. It’s interesting, but idk how government involvement will be received in a lot of the places in which the crisis is at its worst.
Here’s a POLITICO piece on it from last year. There are a bunch of others and videos of Murphy talking about it. It will be great if they can figure out a way to get people involved with each other irl again.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/05/sen-chris-murphy-wants-to-help-you-make-friends-00125372
People are always going to slip through the cracks of programs like that. Even during the national AWB of ‘94-‘04 we had: North Hollywood Shooting, Columbine, and the DC Sniper, and this was at a time when the modern loneliness problem didn’t exist and AWs were restricted. Before the AWB expired there were something like 10,000 AR-15s in circulation. Now there are 20,000,000 in circulation. Ain’t no putting that genie back into the bottle.
Yeah, there would have to be a MASSIVE buyback campaign and I am not sure if the federal government would have enough money to compensate people for what they think their guns are worth.
There'd also probably be a bunch of Waco/Ruby Ridge-style events if something like that (somehow) managed to make it past a senate filibuster.