New Executive Order Directs Federal Agencies to Combat Emerging Firearms Threats andImprove School-Based Active Shooter Drills Today, President Biden and
Just an FYI, you gotta add a blank line between each item if you want them to display like a list and not a giant run-on sentence. Assuming it’s like reddit, you should be able to do bullet points with an asterix and a space before each item on the list if you’re into that.
You’re gonna need to tax people’s income for real. Comically that’s the one thing from the 1950s USA they don’t wanna MAGA. They want the racism, the sexism, the authoritarianism, the mcCarthyism … but not the taxation that built roads.
Public all day preschool and early childhood interventions. Retrain doctors to take people’s conditions seriously and how to properly diagnose and give prescriptions.
Sorry. It’s the exact opposite. Here in Australia we have a serious meth problem and we are full of assholes who are incredibly toxic and drugged up. Ending the war on drugs just makes addictive drugs even more accessible, so people are more likely to try them and encourage others to do so
Highly addictive drugs should not be legalized, and it certainly isn’t the reason for school shootings and such
What protects us is gun laws, and you guys need stronger ones
The war on drugs is a euphemism. Ending It doesn’t mean stop drug legislation, it means stop putting parents in jail for 10 years and putting their kids in care because they smoked weed and the kid accidentally told a cop when the cop visited their school and told them if they didn’t rat out their parents something worse would happen.
Correct. The majority of our prison is non violent drug offenders, who lose their children, which end up in bad situations…which cause some of them to turn to gangs for that family role. It’s a cycle that feeds violence, and the most fucked up part, is it drastically effects minorities more than anyone else.
I was in denver 2 weeks ago, and didn’t seem like anyone was going to jail for cannabis…
It didn’t stop gun violence.
Gun violence has very little to do with drug legalisation. It seems like people are just tacking it on as something they want, but it seems fairly dishonest, especially since you guys are getting a lot of mass shootings at schools and such which clearly aren’t related. It might only reduce the number of smaller shootings
Better gun control is the primary factor that stops gun violence in most countries. At this time, everyone in US treats them like toys and fashion accessories. So when someone is getting bullied or having a shitty week, its very easy for them to snap and react. Here in Australia, they can’t easily react by grabbing a gun.
We pulled the majority of them out of circulation for a reason… And it worked
K-12 and colleges/universities are only the setting of ~12.8% of mass shootings.
Your just making speculative hyperbole about a nation a hemisphere away. Isolating any one factor as reducing crime is often near impossible. A downward trend following legislative can just as easily be attributed to other factors like a general decline in criminality over time or due to bettering economic conditions (among countless other factors).
You in Australia did not have anywhere near the firearms we have in civ hands. Even then, the forced confiscation you did only 60% turned in their firearms. You know what %60 leaves here in the states? Over 100 million firearms in civ hands.
The drug wars target mainly minorities which cause parents to go to jail, and kids to turn to gangs. It absolutely has an effect on our gun violence. Which the mass majority of our violence comes from is gang related, not random shootings like you hear in the news.
Here I’ll fix our problem
Pay teachers more
Build more schools to reduce class sizes
Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day
Single payer healthcare
Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don’t turn to suicide
Improve safety nets
End the war on drugs
End for profit prison system
End qualified immunity
Hey look gun violence has dropped like a hot rock…
But no please keep doing the same shit and spend political capital on shit a very large portion of the usa doesn’t want.
I’m voting for this guy in November.
Turns out that some random Lemmy poster actually has better answers than both of the major political parties.
Civilized countries only have most of those and don’t have the gun problem. It seems like you can get by with just a smart subset of this as a base.
Even just single payer would drastically help our citizens health
Just an FYI, you gotta add a blank line between each item if you want them to display like a list and not a giant run-on sentence. Assuming it’s like reddit, you should be able to do bullet points with an asterix and a space before each item on the list if you’re into that.
Would make your comment much more readable
Yea I wrote that in the AM without my brain having been fully awake lol fixed the formating cause that was a hot mess to read.
While I agree with you, any politician with an R beside their name is going to actively obstruct everything you just listed.
So then it becomes what takes more political capital, one thing they’ll fight tooth and nail or ten?
If the dems had a spine they’d use their antigun capital on getting single payer passed. It would probably cut gun deaths in half alone.
At the rate hospitals are going belly up after getting drained of cash, there won’t be a health system left by the time any of this happens.
Pay people more. Make it really fucking hard to be a billionaire anywhere in the world.
You’re gonna need to tax people’s income for real. Comically that’s the one thing from the 1950s USA they don’t wanna MAGA. They want the racism, the sexism, the authoritarianism, the mcCarthyism … but not the taxation that built roads.
Public all day preschool and early childhood interventions. Retrain doctors to take people’s conditions seriously and how to properly diagnose and give prescriptions.
Absolutely! Add in maternity/paternity leave that allows the parents to bond with their child for at least 6 months.
Ending the war on drugs doesn’t. I disagree
Sorry. It’s the exact opposite. Here in Australia we have a serious meth problem and we are full of assholes who are incredibly toxic and drugged up. Ending the war on drugs just makes addictive drugs even more accessible, so people are more likely to try them and encourage others to do so
Highly addictive drugs should not be legalized, and it certainly isn’t the reason for school shootings and such
What protects us is gun laws, and you guys need stronger ones
The war on drugs is a euphemism. Ending It doesn’t mean stop drug legislation, it means stop putting parents in jail for 10 years and putting their kids in care because they smoked weed and the kid accidentally told a cop when the cop visited their school and told them if they didn’t rat out their parents something worse would happen.
Correct. The majority of our prison is non violent drug offenders, who lose their children, which end up in bad situations…which cause some of them to turn to gangs for that family role. It’s a cycle that feeds violence, and the most fucked up part, is it drastically effects minorities more than anyone else.
They already changed that didn’t they?
I was in denver 2 weeks ago, and didn’t seem like anyone was going to jail for cannabis…
It didn’t stop gun violence.
Gun violence has very little to do with drug legalisation. It seems like people are just tacking it on as something they want, but it seems fairly dishonest, especially since you guys are getting a lot of mass shootings at schools and such which clearly aren’t related. It might only reduce the number of smaller shootings
Better gun control is the primary factor that stops gun violence in most countries. At this time, everyone in US treats them like toys and fashion accessories. So when someone is getting bullied or having a shitty week, its very easy for them to snap and react. Here in Australia, they can’t easily react by grabbing a gun.
We pulled the majority of them out of circulation for a reason… And it worked
K-12 and colleges/universities are only the setting of ~12.8% of mass shootings.
Your just making speculative hyperbole about a nation a hemisphere away. Isolating any one factor as reducing crime is often near impossible. A downward trend following legislative can just as easily be attributed to other factors like a general decline in criminality over time or due to bettering economic conditions (among countless other factors).
You in Australia did not have anywhere near the firearms we have in civ hands. Even then, the forced confiscation you did only 60% turned in their firearms. You know what %60 leaves here in the states? Over 100 million firearms in civ hands.
The drug wars target mainly minorities which cause parents to go to jail, and kids to turn to gangs. It absolutely has an effect on our gun violence. Which the mass majority of our violence comes from is gang related, not random shootings like you hear in the news.