How are more firearm laws going to prevent mass shootings?

Maybe we need to.look to other countries and what laws they have in place.

That’s a start, but you have to compare population, and economy when you do that.

I mean the people who do this are already breaking laws. They don’t give a shit about laws. Speaking pragmatically, we can try to restrict access but you all know that’ll be a long, uphill battle. I’ll keep harping on secure storage but those laws will be hard to pass and enforce. Mass shootings were not exactly a thing 40 years ago, not the way they are now. So, we also need to take a real hard look at why this has changed. People seem so afraid to face that down. To make progress here, I think we have to. People are flying off the handle more and our gun culture is off the rails a bit. This takes attention and action from multiple angles.

More firearms laws might help, but not as much as less firearms.

I think people get upset at the talk of taking guns away, and a lot of these guns are super expensive and most people wouldn’t use them against another human, so lets attack ammunition instead,you need a permit to buy and have ammo,then the police can confiscate it if you don’t have a permit.

Laws go hand in hand with enforcement. We need laws, but we also need police departments that will enforce the laws. And in several states (I think Missouri is one) police have said that they will not enforce gun laws.

Either we live in a nation with laws or we live in anarchy.

It’s not, the issue is all the unresolved issues plaguing people that no one talks about.

Why are even rich people having fights and killing their families?

It’s almost like we’re all stressed and brush it off because “Hey, we’re Americans and we’re tough! We ignore and bury everything!”

In Japan there was only one murder from a gun in 2022. It was July 8th, 2022.

Unfortunately it was Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and with a home made gun.

Sometimes one can’t seem to win.

In short, more gun laws are not going to stop people from mass shootings in the USA (which is what you are pushing with this question). Let’s be honest: to take a gun into a school or into a night club or into an office building and shoot up the place killing a bunch of people, the person is already violating a dozen laws. Obviously breaking the law doesn’t bother them. Many killings in the US are done with illegally obtained guns which adds on another few laws you broke. Suggesting that more gun laws are going to stop this is nutty. You have to get to the root of the problem. Guns are the tool, but are not the cause. We just had the case in late March of this year in Illinois where a guy killed 4 and injured 7 more with a knife. Again, the knife is not the cause, it is the tool.

Per trump “we have to move forward”. Per jd vance “it’s a fact of life”. Our wannabe leaders response

Ya know @seawulf575 politically I agree with you on nothing ,BUT totally agree with what you said about this, good answer.

In the US, you must be 21 to buy a pack of cigarettes. You can buy a long gun including an AR15 at 18. Several states are now selling ammunition out of vending machines with NOBODY checking their age. A 9 y/o can buy bullets to fit any gun they want.

I don’t own a gun, but I lean toward the buy back approach. That worked well in New Zealand but didn’t go over very big in the US. I don’t see just taking guns away as an appropriate response. I also see making parents responsible for their own actions as a possible answer. The kid here in GA that recently shot up the school, had been making noises. The FBI had interrogated him & done nothing because the kid denied the threats. Then his dad buys him a fancy rifle for Christmas. Dad is being charged along with the kid. That might make some other parent think twice before being so generous.

^^ The FBI “didn’t do anything” because after investgating they found that the Discord account name was in Russian and was also connected to New Jersey and New York, so they couldn’t pin the account down.

”“Due to the inconsistent nature of the information received by the FBI, the allegation that Colt or Colin is the user behind the Discord account that made the threat cannot be substantiated,” the report concluded. “This case will be exceptionally cleared.”

“The threats were generic and not a specific location or time,” a spokesperson for the FBI Atlanta division told Yahoo News on Thursday. “At this time, we don’t have further information to share other than what was in our statement on our social media channels.””

It’s easy to judge the FBI in hindsight. They did their job and found no connection.

Maybe start with all schools having walk through metal detectors at all entry points.
We all know that gun laws will never change with all the NRA’s money flowing to lawmakers.

There was a case not long ago where the entrances into the school all ended up in a small atrium. It was enclosed with the outside door and an inside door. The inside door had a small window in it. No other glass to shoot out and you had to be buzzed in to get inside the inner door. Some guy showed up to shoot up the school and got into that point and could get no further. He ended up getting frustrated and leaving. The cops picked him up later. I realize it isn’t feasible to buzz each child in, one at a time, but this might make a difference on people coming in after school has already started.

Our school district has double doors and you can’t get into the first door without being buzzed in. The schools have a lot of high tech security on the windows and doors. It’s a great area, not crime ridden at all, except an occasional bear stealing from the bird feeders or garbage cans, but you never know. We’re about 20 minutes from Sandy Hook, which is also a great area, although our area is more rural than Sandy Hook.