Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: March 29, 2023 06:42PM
Mass casualty events pretty much all involve perpetrators who do not expect to survive the event. So publishing a list of 'penalties' they might face is nonproductive.
The one 'change' that might bring the number of casualties way down would be to do away with religion. Curing people of religion would, along with shootings, save victims of other forms of mayhem: bombs, vehicular ramming, setting fires, knife attacks, etc., etc.
Then maybe 'one-sided love' should be eliminated so that jealousy would not wreak the havoc it often does. There should be a bottle of pills you can hand to the person you no longer love, but who continues to love you. What a blessing that would be, not to mention the lives that might be saved.
I have this image of EVERYONE saying, "I'll turn in my guns as soon as everyone else does!" And when further pressed for clarification, it becomes, "When I'm the last one owning a gun, and I've verified this by searching everywhere, then, and only then, will I turn in my guns!"
Everyone is all, "Yes, guns are bad, and it will be heaven on earth when all guns are eliminated, but you go first!"
I'm vaguely aware that the Australians did something to restrict gun ownership, or at least the types of guns the public could own, after the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting. And it did a great job of reducing mass shootings, no doubt about it.
But apparently, all Australia did was ban automatic and semi-automatic weapons. That's a heck of a good start, but here in American, any such attempt to do this would still be fought.
And here's an interesting tid-bit, from a 2017 The Atlantic article: "There are estimated to be as many guns in Australia now as there were at the time of the Port Arthur massacre—though the level of gun violence is not comparable."
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/australia-gun-control/541710/Getting rid of semi-auto and automatic weapons would be very useful, but what are the chances of that happening in the United States?
Who among us will voluntarily line up to turn in his/her automatic and semi-automatic rifles, including the ever so cute and popular Ruger 10-22?
America has a gun problem, and it may be incurable.