A 22 year old guy with a concealed carry license

@Whyme https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/17/us/indiana-greenwood-park-mall-shooting/index.html

@FreeSpirit1 do you think people would be safer if we went back to wild west everyone has a revolver ?

@Whyme Like in a time machine? Your question is silly.

@FreeSpirit1 its not unattainable theres plenty of hand guns to go around even pretty lil ones for the ladys if they choose they still make the clint eastwood for the guys with the mini monster trucks my question is would it be safer in your opinion

@Whyme In the actual wild West most people didn't have a gun of any kind, not even all cowboys had guns and certainly not all of them had revolvers.

@ninalanyon think the point completely passed you by but ok

@Whyme Would it be safer to make it impossible for law abiding non criminal citizens the ability to have a handgun for protection by passing more strict gun laws? We all know the only people who follow gun laws are law abiding citizens, criminals don't give a shit about our laws
The Police come after you're robbed raped or murdered, not during, it is every persons right to protect themselves, not the government.
And lots of people would never own a gun, and that's their right as well.
Your cowboy revolver anology is silly

@Whyme Which point? Yours or @FreeSpirit1's?

@FreeSpirit1 if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns but if you think the world would be safer with everybody having one i dunno what to say you dont think there would be several shooting of someone just asking a question cause they felt “threatened” i really dont have the answer the current way isnt working yes this guy got it right but there are cases where it didnt go right

@ninalanyon arm everyone see how that works out go to dmv on your 16th n get your licence and an 8mm the world should be safe then

@Whyme Ok I agree with not killing every driver because they are a potential mass vehicular manslaughterer, but when someone pulls out a gun and points it in the direction of people minding their own business it's a pretty dead giveaway that something is afoul.

@MrSmooTh which is why i added i needed more info lol 😄

@Whyme I think the consequences of everyone being armed are fairly easy to predict. I very much doubt that a reduction in gun related deaths would be one of them.

@ninalanyon so whats your suggestion ? I really dont know cause ild bet outlawing em wont help theres too many in circulation i really dont know im curious why this is pretty much just a usa problem what happens there that dont elsewhere ?

@FreeSpirit1 Many criminals don't carry guns.

@Whyme Americans need to learn to trust each other. Of course that means that they have to be trustworthy. But you can't wait for everyone to be perfect. People need to get rid of the ridiculous notion that government is necessarily always bad or ineffective.

It's a long term project because it is much easier to destroy trust than to build it.

American politics seen from the outside reminds me of school playground disagreements in primary school, nothing ever gets fixed because people seem only interested in disagreeing with their opponents.

I don't have a recipe but a reduction in inequality would be a good start.

@ninalanyon nobody really knows what started with the term going postal grew into school shooters and so on but it dont happen elsewhere so there is a driving force there i think but i could be way off

@Whyme People in the US seem to live under greater stress than in many other countries. Declining effective income, increasing inequality, all combine to make people feel helpless. So suicide rates increase, and many mass shootings seem to be complicated ways of committing suicide.

@ninalanyon i see that but the canadian economy is no better in many ways ours mirrors theres and both governments are liberal ours prob crazier than theres yet no shootings mind you weve never had a political figure assasinated either so theres that

@Whyme Don't you have a different political system in Canada? Less polarization? I've only visited Canada (Toronto, Burlington, and Niagara Falls) once but the atmosphere was somehow different from the US. Of course it's a small sample so I don't mean it to be taken too seriously. In the US there seems to be a pervasive distrust in government institutions of all kinds, is it the same in Canada?

@ninalanyon not really its the same 2 party liberal or conservative there are other smaller parties but one of them two will be in power and its kinda east vs west east loves liberal west lives off oil so they love conservative east has bigger population so liberal wins till it gets so bad nobody can survive

@Whyme 8mm? 🤣