LogFAQs > #965292010

adjl posted...

The simple answer is that there are bad people in the world, and there unfortunately always will be. The reality is a bit more nuanced than that, but the bottom line is that you're never going to be able to stop everyone from doing bad things (not without extreme authoritarianism, at least).

The problem is that a lot of people take that sort of fatalistic approach to gun violence in the US, believing nothing can be done and that it's just human nature to have the occasional bad apple. That's not a particularly sensible approach, though, given that the situation is so much worse in the US than in many other countries (and without the clear justifications that most of the worse countries have, such as war). These incidents will never go away completely, but that doesn't mean there's no room for improvement.

I wonder if banning guns might work, but it would take a long time to gain footing. Like we ban guns now and then we are where we want to be in 20 years.