A lot of interesting facts and colorful graphs here:
https://usafacts.org/data/topics/sec...irearm-deaths/
As someone quoted him, Trang is a little misleading when he says that 109 deaths day are happening by gun. First, 2020, 2021, and 2022 are going to be outliers because of Covid. Second, he lumps in suicides with homicides. Third, not really misleading by apples and oranges, if you remove the three major metropolitan centers then the numbers of deaths drops dramatically. Texas, California, New York, and Illinois all have different problems. California, New York, and Illinois all have progressive, gutless DAs who will not prosecute the gun laws on the books. Texas has an invasion going on from Mexico.
The saying goes, figures lie and liars figure. Tran is somewhere in there.
Lets get back to the real topic:
Anyone who says that we have to ban guns or a class of guns is mentally not equipped to be part of the solution. Like the idiots who said that we could get Covid down to ZERO cases. It's never going to happen. So any gun ban when there are already over 400 million legally owned guns in the country is not going to happen. An attempt to ban by force will, in my opinion, lead to a civil war. So look to anyone like Beto as being absolute idiots and undeserving of any responsible position.
So where does that leave us?
Let me say at this point, anyone and I do mean anyone who says that you don't care about kids being murdered is not a serious person and is a piece of shit of the worst kind. We disagree with what we can do or what we should do but, except for Hillary Clinton, we all care.
The Constitution prevents a lot of user controls. That means abusing regular, law-abiding people to root out the mentally ill and evil people. Imagine, a serious of acts of terrorism ending in multiple deaths and the call is to prevent regular people from being able to protect themselves.
An easier, more constitutional solution of to harden the targets like they do in Israel. Nearly every mass shooting in recent years has been in a certified "gun-free" zone. Surviving mass shooters have said that they chose their targets based on that little fact. Get rid of gun free zones unless you can guaran-goddamn-tee that no one with a gun can get in. Locally, we have a community college that allows concealed carry. They were forced to do so because the requirement to have every point of egress equipped with a metal detector and a human to man it was deemed too expensive for 17 different entrances and 14,000 students.
In the future we can go one of two ways; school design and the human element.
Schools (and this could apply to a lot of different buildings) could have limited access throughout the day with locked doors on both sides. During morning and afternoon rush, a larger entrance can be fully manned with armed personnel like a sporting event or concert. I can even see a school being build on a circular floor plan with a recreational area INSIDE the building structure like the voluminous courtyard of the Pentagon.
The second thing is the inclusion of armed, trained teachers, officers, and staffers. FBI stats show that armed civilians have a higher "good shoot" rate than the police. There is really no difference between a regular person and a police officer when it comes to shooting. Just some training and practice. I know many civilians who are better shots that policemen.
The downside is liberals who want to hamstring such a program. I've heard that they will allow teachers to carry but they want them to wear something that identifies them which takes away the deterrence factor. Or the authorities want to restrict the type of firearm or ammunition because of politics. They also refuse to extend civil liability protection to any armed teacher like the police have.
Like I said, the local community college allows concealed carry but with the following restrictions;
Any weapon must remain out of sight at all times.
Any weapon must remain in your control all times. No taking a shower after sweating soccer practice leaving your weapon in a locker.
No weapon shall have a bullet in battery. You can't load, lock, and carry. Also, all revolvers can only have five shots so there is not an accidental discharge.
Israel protects their children with armed adults with essentially a license to kill and legal protections to do so.
In the end, you have to ask every liberal, do you want your children to come home every day or do you want a political talking point?
FYI, like Covid, nothing is an absolute or perfect. Shootings will continue to happen until we fix our society which is difficult and a very lengthy process.
