So yeah you can fire a bullet so many different ways, a rusty nail and hammer will do the trick. Isn’t the real problem the frickin bullet?

I swear in Sweden or something, you can take a gun home but ammo is only sold and consumed at the range and not for taking home.

Sure, you can make this a hollistic approach regulating guns and ammo, but the ammo seems to be the bigger issue here. You can make guns easy peasy, but ammo is much harder to manufacture and easier to regulate.

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    Sure, and you can walk down the road and get struck by lightning with the same odds of a bullet randomly firing on its own and injuring or killing you.

    On the flip side, the reality (to the significant digit) is that a person with a gun but no bullets can hurt you. A person with bullets but no gun can also hurt you. In fact, a person with neither a bullet nor a gun can hurt you too! It happens all the time.

    But you know what doesn’t happen all the time?

    A loaded gun discharging itself without a person attached.

    The common theme is not the guns, it’s the people. Let’s fix that part.

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      Yeah, I’m with you on the direction to approach from, if slightly different in tack. I was just amusing myself. Hopefully I wasn’t causing you too much annoyance.

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        Nah, not annoyed. Tbh, fixing the people is going to be much harder than just regulating the implements of their destruction.

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          It has to be possible, though. Some places seem to manage some kind of sanity, at least.

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            You mean places that support their societies with things like affordable health care? Not sure that type of progressive governance is going to be a reality in the US for some time

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              Never impossible, but not happening yet. I have a suspicion things will shift more as the cold warriors inevitably succumb to the limits of mortality. All the power and money in the world still can’t stop the power of time.