Dear Americans .... what are your suggestions on appeasing the gun crime in USA?

This is not about the politics because in the paste years you have had both Republican and Democratic leaders that have not managed to tackle the issue.

Here are some stats for you, based on 2022 alone:

In this year there have been 609 mass shootings, from which there have been 637 deaths (around 58 per month) and 2552 people injured.

There has not been a single week without a mass shooting.and in fact only 83 days this year have been free from a amass shooting.

More children have died in a school shooting than police officers on duty.

I find this shocking but the apathy towards change even more so.

Is it time to give up the guns?

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SW-User

I'm English but I want to throw in some thoughts. My take on it is that there are a huge number of American gun owners who simply don't want to give up their guns, regardless of the statistics. Not only do they like guns and see them as a constitutional right, which they are, but they also firmly believe that to do so puts them at the mercy of the state and particularly of a tyrannical state should that ever come to pass. So no amount of stats will sway them and that is as much the case now as ever before, if not moreso, when they perceive no end of threats to their way of life coming from the political opposition.

If those Americans don't want to give up their guns then it's logistically implausible to take them by force, not to mention extremely dangerous. Furthermore, if enough Americans would vote that they want to keep their guns then there is little scope to take them away anyway. That vote, and the lobbying that supports it, is too powerful.

I must admit that, whilst it may be pedantic, I'm not comfortable with the definition of a mass shooting. As it stands, a mass shooting is defined as where four people other than the shooter are shot. Four people is not a mass of people, nor is four a mass of anything. This is just an issue of terminology though, it doesn't detract from the main issue of gun violence. I mean, if four people were stung by bees I wouldn't describe it as a mass stinging event.

BabyLonia · F

@SW-User I'm British too and i have been debating gun crime since i joined sw but i have seen it just worsen.

I am trying very hard to hear what solutions can be offered but none ever are.

4 people in one shooting seems high enough to me

SW-User

@BabyLonia Sure, I get you. I don't think that there is a solution that doesn't involve the majority of gun owning Americans deciding to give them up.

I definitely agree that four people shot is enough to be a tragedy by any definition, it just doesn't fit the definition of a mass. A mass as an adjective is defined as a large number. As I inferred though, this is just an aside rather than detracting from the issue at hand.