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In Sweden, three out of four children below the age of 18 live with both their parents. It's about being raised properly.
and
"Children who spent equal time living with both parents after a separation reported better wellbeing than children in predominantly single parent care. This was particularly true for the 15-year-olds, while the reported wellbeing of 12-years-olds was less satisfactory. "
Even handguns galore Switzerland has regulations lots of American gun owners and certainly the NRA would find too restrictive. Yet it works! Unfortunately, that means a culture change for Americans (presumably especially "Middle America", where the disproportionate number of guns are). Still, if we're going to insist on having guns galore, at least take a cue from Switzerland - and change our culture to match the Swiss one.
*Two week waiting period
*Criminal and mental background Checks
*Laws mandating separating firearms from ammo when not in use
*Very strict open-carry (i.e. more limited than our own states' open-carry laws)
*Have clean criminal record
*Report firearm ownerships or transfers to the police
*Send written request for ownership to authorities
*Justification for gun ownership to authorities
*Gun traceability
*Firearms training
Unfortunately, even some items on here will still get called a 2A violation by a lot of people.
It works? How? I am sure every self-respecting criminal would follow the law.
You are too ignorant to know that most of those laws have been implemented here in many states.
It's amazing how people think "Middle America" is responsible for the gun carnage when most of Middle America is licensed and has very little crime in comparison to Urban Coastal America, inner cities, and liberal utopias where the vast majority of shooting occurs and are committed by unlicensed minorities with illegally obtained firearms. And the irony of this post is that "Middle America" looks and behaves culturally more similar to Switzerland than the rest of America, hence the reason it's safer statistically and has less gun crime.
Remove just 16-24 year old black males using handguns in our ten most violent cities, and our gun related homicide numbers PLUMMET.
Rifles of every kind are used in just 3% of firearm homicides. Rifles in the hands of middle America are not the issue. Never really have been.
Handguns in the inner city is the vast majority of the firearm violence in this country. That's an easily verifiable statistical fact. Why the government doesn't really spend a lot of time worrying about handguns is because they are popular among their constituents (yes, even liberal women and people of color like having a handgun for self-defense), handgun violence is primarily perpetrated by urban black males between 16-24 years old, so they'd have a hard time making a good "blame the citizen" point about handguns, and because handguns present no decently credible defense threat against better armed and body armored agents of tyranny.
The citizen does not have a rifle problem, an armed Middle America problem, or a mass shooting problem. Our government has a "burr in their saddle about civilians having anything comparable to their agents of tyranny" problem. If the civilian has a gun problem, that problem is localized to urban environments and specific to handguns.
Go ahead and be the Democrat who says everyone living in cities should be banned from possessing handguns. Good luck.
Remove just 16-24 year old black males using handguns in our ten most violent cities, and our gun related homicide numbers PLUMMET.
Rifles of every kind are used in just 3% of firearm homicides. Rifles in the hands of middle America are not the issue. Never really have been.
Handguns in the inner city is the vast majority of the firearm violence in this country. That's an easily verifiable statistical fact. Why the government doesn't really spend a lot of time worrying about handguns is because they are popular among their constituents (yes, even liberal women and people of color like having a handgun for self-defense), handgun violence is primarily perpetrated by urban black males between 16-24 years old, so they'd have a hard time making a good "blame the citizen" point about handguns, and because handguns present no decently credible defense threat against better armed and body armored agents of tyranny.
The citizen does not have a rifle problem, an armed Middle America problem, or a mass shooting problem. Our government has a "burr in their saddle about civilians having anything comparable to their agents of tyranny" problem. If the civilian has a gun problem, that problem is localized to urban environments and specific to handguns.
Go ahead and be the Democrat who says everyone living in cities should be banned from possessing handguns. Good luck.
Correct. The real reason gun crime statistics in the USA are "high" is because we are the only place in the world that insists on maintaining a democrat-controlled ghetto system where police are demonized, welfare is doled out, and personal responsibility is not demanded.
The VAST majority of gun crime occurs in 10 huge urban areas.
Even handguns galore Switzerland has regulations lots of American gun owners and certainly the NRA would find too restrictive. Yet it works! Unfortunately, that means a culture change for Americans (presumably especially "Middle America", where the disproportionate number of guns are). Still, if we're going to insist on having guns galore, at least take a cue from Switzerland - and change our culture to match the Swiss one.
*Two week waiting period
*Criminal and mental background Checks
*Laws mandating separating firearms from ammo when not in use
*Very strict open-carry (i.e. more limited than our own states' open-carry laws)
*Have clean criminal record
*Report firearm ownerships or transfers to the police
*Send written request for ownership to authorities
*Justification for gun ownership to authorities
*Gun traceability
*Firearms training
Unfortunately, even some items on here will still get called a 2A violation by a lot of people.
We fought a brutal war to be different from other countries.
Besides all of the flag-waving and colloquial jingoism, how did that work out for you?
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Originally Posted by rstevens62
Our Constitution says NO INFRINGEMENT...get over it, the guns are not going anywhere.
Just how many people in the U.S. actually go out to purchase a gun simply because they are following an archaic 2nd amendment that says "NO INFRINGEMENT" ...? Answer: None! Using 2A to support this fanatism for guns is plain deceitful!
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Originally Posted by rstevens62
If you feel this way about guns, perhaps America is not the best country for you live in?
That's perhaps not bad advice, rs. There appear to be a lot of loons in 'the land of the free' who have easy access to weapons simply because they're (ahem) following a 2A mandate.
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