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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BlueVeins · 22-25

The vast majority of gun crime is economic in nature. We need policies to help alleviate the poverty such as universal healthcare, more federal K-12 education funding, mass-scale zoning reform, alternative transit, universal housing, and a PBI. Universal mental healthcare would, of course, be included in universal healthcare, thus some of our crazy gun nuts could receive help before it's too late. Zoning reform and alternative transit would also address mental health and strengthen community bonds, since suburbanism and car dependency are disastrous for the American psyche.

Moreover, fraud laws should be expanded to encompass disinformation, broadly. We should have freedom of expression -- not freedom of deception -- along with an entire branch of accountable and transparent government tasked with identifying verifiably false claims and taking whatever action is necessary to eliminate them. Alongside that, we should have ranked choice voting on all levels of government, so such as to prevent this tribalistic two party system which amplifies extremists and consolidates far too much power in far too few hands.

Gun licensing could also help reduce crime as well, but it shouldn't be the main thrust of our solution. A society where people only abstain from slaughtering each other for lack of capability is not a very good one at all.