hlstark - 1/24/2023 10:53 At least 70 people have been killed and 167 wounded in mass shootings so far in 2023, What should be done? The cursory saying of “thoughts and prayers” doesn’t seem to be working. Should we mandate that everyone carry a gun? Problem with that is accidental gun discharges amount to 535 deaths last year, imagine how many would die if everyone is packing. Tougher penalties don’t help since the shooters most of the tome want to die while shooting. Should we follow the lead of other advanced countries whose gun laws led to decrease in mass shootings? Or are we as Americans too independent and too gun loving to even think of changes? Or should we just go on life and just accept gun violence and follow up with each shooting with thoughts and prayers? A place to start is to limit/eliminate high capacity magazines. With high capacity magazines on semi or full automatic weapons, as the California shooter and most other mass shooters use, a lot of innocent folks are likely killed before even "good guys" carrying guns could respond in most of these situations. High capacity magazines have no practical use other than to kill people. However our knee jerk gun lobby has fought all attempts to address even this first step in at least limiting the damage that can be caused so quickly. And few in our Congress have the guts to stand up and say enough of this lunacy.
Edited by Jim 1/24/2023 15:42
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