Post by RickW on Jul 21, 2012 10:10:05 GMT -5
We were driving yesterday, and they already had some associate professor of a university on CBC, talking about the psychology of guns and violence. He was actually not bad, saying that there was so many complicated cultural issues around the subject, that really doing anything would require what was truly a massive change in society. The interviewer of course kept asking, 'what caused this', and, 'how could we prevent this,' in the normal inane manner, as pointed out by the timeline posted above.
The only way to completely remove gun violence would be to completely remove guns, and that is not going to happen. Even if every lawmaker in the US and Canada decided tomorrow to make them illegal, how many decades would it take to reclaim every gun out there?
The implications of all this is that there is really nothing to be done with any of this. These incidents are going to happen. Which is horrible, but that's the simple truth.
The only way to completely remove gun violence would be to completely remove guns, and that is not going to happen. Even if every lawmaker in the US and Canada decided tomorrow to make them illegal, how many decades would it take to reclaim every gun out there?
The implications of all this is that there is really nothing to be done with any of this. These incidents are going to happen. Which is horrible, but that's the simple truth.