Whatever your thoughts on gun control, you likely know your lines. When the press reports a mass shooting you either immediately begin to defend gun rights or start asking for gun control.
Personally, I am tired of the same old dialogue and am wanting some real information.
How many gun crimes a year are committed with legally obtained guns?
When they say common sense gun control, what does that mean and how will they define common sense when there are no facts established around the topic?
The most painful question of all... What is a reasonable level of causalities? If it is zero there is no hope in site.
Keep in mind around 30,000 people a year are killed by guns and that includes accidents, police shootings, suicides and crime. While everyone would like this number to be lower it is actually already lower than national drowning deaths.
The gun violence argument has it's own economy and lobbyists despite not being in the top 10 causes of death in the US.
Every Mass Shooting/Killing leaves us with a sense of horror and powerlessness. Nice how the media always steps up to give us something to focus the argument on.
Seems to me it would be helpful to study gun violence and discuss the issue with facts vs. feelings...
Let's call for facts and a reasonable discussion.
This playing-out of political roles seems to happen after every mass shooting, like it's part of the program. It has occurred after incidents in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., and San Bernardino, Calif., and Orlando. On and on.But one reason the positions are so intractable is that no one really knows what works to prevent gun deaths. Gun-control research in the United States essentially came to a standstill in 1996.After 21 years, the science is stale.“In the area of what works to prevent shootings, we know almost nothing,” Mark Rosenberg, who, in the mid-1990s, led the CDC's gun-violence research efforts, said shortly after the San Bernardino shooting in 2015.
What do you think about debating a topic we literally have no information to support?
