Agree. On this section of the internet I've proposed domestic violence offenders being red-flagged and have been shot down. We'd save a lot of lives if this was enacted.
I think we get hung up on the "it wouldn't have stopped this one". If we can stop 10% of gun deaths we stop 4,500/year. More than died on 9/11.
I don't know that we get hung up on that but I do get hung up on this.
1. 50%'ish of gun deaths are suicide. While i would stipulate that if many of these people had not had a gun readily available, they may not be dead and as a result we could possibly have fewer deaths, perhaps even in the thousands. However, I'm not willing to give up my 2nd Amendment rights
to protect someone from themselves. I don't give up alcohol to prevent other Drunk Drivers. I don't give up driving to prevent other car crashes.
2. The number of mass shootings in 2020 was about 693. Most of these aren't Uvalde type events but rather, two rival Urban males who show up at the same place, get in an argument and start shooting. That sounds like gang to me. That sounds like likely criminal background. We could implement laws that punish this sort of thing HEAVILY, but Dem's and DAs are the ones backing off on these because "it disproportionally effects black and brown"
3. The second largest segment is homicide (not of the mass shooting variety). Again, mostly the criminal element doing this.
4. The smallest number (by orders of magnitude) happens to also be the most tragic and thus garners most of the attention because it is useful rhetoric for gun control advocates. All of us want shootings at schools and grocery stores to stop but what the I get hung up on is that this represents less than 1% of the problem and Dem's want to address it by trickle-down gun theory.
And then there are the very practical issues of what happens after gun control is implemented. there are already 350MM+ guns. As soon as you announce gun control, most of those are going to be reported as sold/lost/stolen. And the fact that we live next to an almost failed narco state that we don't have the ability/willingness to stop drug/cartel/human trafficking so you can bet that you can just add guns to that (even more than already exists).
There are some interesting stats on "time-to-crime" which detail how soon a gun is used in a crime. and also some stats about how recently a suicide purchased their gun. These two stats might indicate some benefit to having a longer waiting time for a First Gun, but until Dem's get serious about criminals possessing guns FOR ANY REASON, AT ANY TIME then most GOP are not going to budge on the rest of it.
