If we can't get rid of drugs, I'm skeptical we could get rid of ammo, either.
rchive
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Some lists of "mass shootings" include only the public indiscriminate kind, which is what basically everyone thinks of when they hear the phrase "mass shooting," but some do include actual gang violence (turf war) or other violence based around other crime (drug deal gone bad). Your red shirt blue shirt scenario is cute, but that would still probably be the public indiscriminate kind. The two phenomena are very different.
There was an article from a big US news source a few years ago about how there had been over a hundred school shootings in the US that year. Can't remember which source. The list of events included many that happened near a school or on school property but only incidentally. There was at least one where kids shot a gun in a school parking lot when no one else was around. Of course that's still a problem, but again that's a very different phenomenon than a "school shooting" where someone tries to murder 20 students. That's why I brought that up.
The incentive is already there, it's just prohibited because of zoning and building codes many places. All the government has to do to fix this is stop getting in the way.
The public indiscriminate kind, gang violence kind, or the 3 kids shot a gun once goofing off in their school parking lot kind?
When seconds count, police are minutes away.
To be clear, the TRUST Act was bipartisan. Sizeable majority Democrat, for sure, but it's not like it was all Ds for, all Rs against or anything.
They just don't want to govern.
Yes. They want paychecks without work, responsibility, or blame.
They don't want there to be a government.
No. I see no evidence of that. Every chance people get to raise military or police spending or make up new laws to restrict people's choices, they take it.
I'm not sure which is funnier, the post or the response to it. Lol
I mean, some places have actually banned them.
Code changes would probably be a lot better.
Corporations are just the sum of their customers. One customer doesn't have much influence, that's true, but collectively they have a ton.
Climate change is bad, but maybe take a deep breath about it. This isn't the hottest the earth has ever been, life is pretty resilient, and humans are in some ways the most resilient life Earth has yet produced.
That changes a lot depending on what time period of pregnancy you're looking. The later you look the more it's about health. By the time you get to third trimester abortions they're almost exclusively about health. The ones of convenience are early, it all makes sense.