It seems a lot of you guys think we need more gun control. How exactly will more gun control prevent these kinds of shootings or gun violence in general.
Guns are incredibly deadly weapons. Make it much harder for people to get these incredibly deadly weapons, and fewer people will be slaughtered with them. It's not that complicated.
Caveat: there is a negative relationship between firearm violence and knife violence, which is problematic.
It's much harder to commit a massacre with a blade rather than a firearm.
As a firm supporter of strict gun control, I agree but I think it's pretty important to point out that reducing access to guns likely wouldn't have a sizable effect on violence as a whole but rather violence due to firearms. Our country's tendency for violent crime is extreme in every category and I can't imagine that this would be any different for acts of violence caused by knifes, hatchets and swords if we made guns unobtainable. We need to fix the pathology of our country, not just prevent access to a deadly tool that makes that pathology all the more dangerous.
