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So essentially the points here are, when reduced, (1) guns are an essential part of US culture that we won't get rid of and (2) we have a cultural problem not a material one.

It seems that if the first is true, you will never address the second. It also seems that any change on these points will take an enormous amount of willingness to change and a great deal of time.

So how about dealing with the immediate problem by reducing access on the basis that there is a significant number of people who cannot be trusted not to go shooting people? If there is clear evidence (and there is) that reducing access to guns reduces gun crime, start there. Then you can work on "culture" as a longer term plan, which seems basically doomed anyway if having a gun is an essential requirement of being an "independent" and "decisive" American.

But the NRA cheerleaders state that the better approach is more guns. Arm everyone. Children, teachers, everyone. What could go wrong?


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19th July 2018ce
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