When I was a kid, the local Army and ROTC had secured buildings where they stored, under lock & key, their military grade rifles.
There is really no reason why, the "well regulated m*****a" couldn't go back to that process - store your high powered weapons and have total access to them if/when needed.
You blame all this gun violence on mental health yet, you v**e for those who want to destroy the mental health system in this country... Gov Abbott for example. Just how do you identify a person, who is going through a mental health situation, before they do something wrong... like buy a gun and go shoot up a school?
We have "trained" police who are responsible for keeping our schools safe. Many of you claim a gun insurance policy would not work, it would be too expensive. But, the very same people who say that, claim that we need to harden our schools, one entrance/exit (which the fire department might disagree with), give guns to the teachers, etc., don't seem to take into consideration that the "government" (state and local) would put that cost burden on the public.
If the "trained" police are afraid to go up against an AR-15, why would you expect the teachers to do it?
Gun insurance won't work but, paying to "harden" schools and train teachers to carry guns will?
Gun insurance is unfair?.... well, what about people who don't have kids and don't have guns? Is it fair that YOU push responsibility onto them over looking deeper into the gun issue?
To see if a high gun homicide rate is tied to lax gun laws, we looked at each state’s firearm homicide rate per 100,000 people from 2015-19 and compared that to its gun-friendliness score, where 1 is the least gun-friendly and 5 is the most gun-friendly. This score is based on individual state laws regarding things like background checks, permit requirements, and open carry rules.
These are the 20 states with the highest firearm homicide rates in the country along with their gun-friendliness scores:
Louisiana: 11.0 (3)
Mississippi: 10.2 (5)
Alabama: 9.5 (4)
Missouri: 8.5 (5)
Maryland: 7.4 (1)
South Carolina: 7.4 (3)
Tennessee: 6.7 (4)
Illinois: 6.5 (2)
Arkansas: 6.2 (3)
Georgia: 6.2 (4)
Alaska: 6.0 (5)
New Mexico: 5.7 (4)
Oklahoma: 5.7 (4)
Indiana: 5.3 (4)
Delaware: 5.1 (2)
North Carolina: 5.0 (4)
Nevada: 4.8 (3)
Ohio: 4.8 (4)
Kentucky: 4.7 (4)
Florida: 4.6 (4)
The vast majority of states with the most gun homicides are states that score a 3 or higher for gun-friendliness, indicating that there may be a correlation.
https://www.criminalattorneycincinnati.com/comparing-gun-control-measures-to-gun-related-homicides-by-state/For those like dennis, who have difficulty understanding what is presented here, and who always point to Chicago as an example... take a closer look as to where Chicago actually sits in this list.... middle of the road, crowded in by red states and lax gun laws.
There is some very telling statistics in this link - Such as Texas - has over 8 million fewer people than California yet, it had only 800 FEWER homicides (2015-19) and is a much gun-friendlier state.
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