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earhere t1_iw98wl5 wrote

To stop crime you have to deal with poverty. Lower the wealth gap, increase minimum wage, improve schools and education. Offer more after school programs and community centers where kids can go to participate in positive activities. But, we were talking about gun violence, and if there's less guns available then there's going to be less gun violence.

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earhere t1_iw97p8w wrote

See, you're proving my point. Because the measures I suggested, in your opinion, won't stop 100% of gun crimes and gun violence for all eternity; they aren't worth doing. So the solution is to just continue as the country has been doing and just ignore the mass shootings that occur every other day and keep pumping more guns into the country and the hands of individuals who are one road rage incident away from committing a murder.

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earhere t1_iw96vc8 wrote

What does the 1st amendment have to do with this conversation? The first amendment doesn't lead to a school shooting. Being able to call the president a piece of shit without cops beating you up and sending you to jail doesn't have anything to do with a teenager buying an assault rifle to blow away people at a school.

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earhere t1_iw95gbp wrote

Here's the thing about the constitution: it's not an infallible document gifted from the heavens. It can be changed, and there are still errors in it that should be. Just because politicians don't want to make those changes because it is too hard and or unpopular to do so, doesn't mean they shouldn't be made.

Hell, you don't even have to change the constitution. Just make acquiring a firearm a lot more difficult than just going to a store and buying it. Make it so you need to have three personal references that the seller can contact to make sure it's not a mistake selling you a firearm. Make it so you need to have a gun safe to store the weapon before you can get one. The ease of firearm acquisition and ownership is making the country less safe, but because gun perverts will not consider any gun legislation that does not stop 100% of gun violence for all eternity, nothing changes and people keep getting killed that did not need to be.

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