Gun Violence Task Force Calls For Research, Parental Tools

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It's a shame the NRA opposes even the softest gun control, especially since their own membership supports most/all of the tenets of say, Obama's gun control policy. Whether you think Obama's gun control goes far enough, the fact is that if you propose it without Obama's name, it gets majority support in this country. Even among NRA members.

The NRA supports promotes the adgenda of it's major finacial contributors, which are firearm manufacturers, not firearm owners.

 

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There's only one thing that will significantly save lives and that is a full ban on guns, all guns, even and especially handguns. That is the only way to get those stats down. But considering that a majority of Congress is Republican and another majority is in good standing with the NRA, a ban on the second amendment isn't going to happen any time soon.

It doesn't hurt that nobody's actually going to proclaim the desire to ban all guns.

I disagree with your premise, however. Banning guns is unnecessary. Well, let me rephrase. "Banning guns is not necessary to significantly save lives. Common sense gun control is sufficient to do that."

It's a shame the NRA opposes even the softest gun control, especially since their own membership supports most/all of the tenets of say, Obama's gun control policy. Whether you think Obama's gun control goes far enough, the fact is that if you propose it without Obama's name, it gets majority support in this country. Even among NRA members.

Common-sense gun control does almost nothing, since those kinds of measures never include handguns, which account for roughly 80% of U.S homicides (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics). And even if all common-sense measures were enforced regarding sales and background checks, the fact that hand guns would still be legally available would mean that they would be siphoned into criminal organizations one way or another.
The most surefire way to ensure a decrease in the homicide rates is to ban all guns. But, since the NRA is Washington's most powerful lobbying group, we can see that that won't happen any time soon. So the most important thing is a change in culture, especially among Republicans and NRA-backers, to draw away votes from that sector and make anti-gun candidates more popular.
That's not something that will easily be achieved and - according to Social Darwinism - a lot more of these massacres will have to take place before such a shift in culture is observed. However, given time, I am sure that will happen, because it increases the security of human survival.