In theory, nobody wants wars. Besides being murderous, wars are monstrously expensive. But people are being people; wars caused by economics or by ideological differences - not believing in the same fictional story. I am very happy that in the sixties Kennedy and Khrushchev were both reasonable people and didn't start throwing nukes at each other. Otherwise, we won't be writing the posts today.
There is so much talk about human rights. In actuality, human life in the eyes of politicians doesn't cost that much. As cynical as it might seem, the life of an average person cost $300 - that is the lowest price for which a hitman would agree to go for a mission.
As far as shootings are concerned... it's a tough one. Gangsters will have gans anyway wither they are legal or not. The question is how to make sure that children and people with unstable psyche would be prevented from access to guns.
For one thing, every potential gun owner should have a thorough psychiatric examination, which has to be evaluated every so often like drivers licenses. Secondly, oh boy, families with a single provider, should not be given the right. It's a very high chance that a child would have access to a gun. Probably there are a bunch of other situations where the right to own a gun must have additional limitations.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment!
Yes, we can be thankful there are occasionally rulers with good sense and the good of the people at heart. It's been a loooong time since Kennedy. And I agree 100% that our politicians treat life as if it is cheap, a commodity to dispose of whenever that is more convenient and cost effective than keeping that life alive and prospering.
I'm afraid I disagree with your solutions though.
At this point, I do not support any new laws that restrict the rights of ordinary citizens in any way - we have too many of those as it is! I spend time every single day making sure I comply with the laws already on the books. No new laws governing regular people!!!
I'm a single parent. While I do not own a firearm, I'm certain I would be as responsible with one as one could possibly be. And single parent homes could in many cases need firearms MORE than two parent homes, so I can't support that idea.
Requiring psychiatric evaluations would add an enormous and costly burden to anyone wanting a gun, and open a host of dangerous opportunities for government to butt into our business, especially medically. I don't know how to handle this problem of psychos getting their hands on guns.
But I do believe that so many of us being psychos can be traced in large part back to our government being run by psychos, especially any agencies involved in national "defense".
Trickle down economics doesn't work, but trickle down mental illness is an actual thing.
Ahahah... That's why it is so complex because it depends on from which end of it are you looking at.
If your goal is to prevent accidental shootings in schools - it's one solution, but if you want to protect your second amendment right it a quite different one.
My daughter and her husband own guns and they made it a habit to go to firing range every so often.