The United States of American has a gun *culture* problem predicated on the uniquely-American and unmovable belief that "guns = safety and freedom". I sent my kids to schools/universities with zero risk of school shootings. I recommend you do the same. The US is a shooting gallery with 400M+ guns.
That's the tip of the 🇺🇸 culture iceberg. 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪, 🇨🇭 - we all have a huge number of guns yet without the mass murder problem. Key problems are 1. An economy that requires the oppression of people to thrive & therefore encourages the devaluation of human life, & 2. The bizarre USian fear of regulation.
Americans love their country but fear their government. It's beyond bizarre. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 have nowhere near 🇺🇸 levels of gun ownership but even if they did, it still wouldn't be a fair comparison. 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 don't sell ~4M AR-15s a year.
Agreed on all points, but 🇺🇸 is toxic way beyond availability. 🇨🇦🇩🇪 & 🇨🇭 don't have 🇺🇸 level guns, but we still have enough for absolute murder & mayhem. Yet....crickets. After the Batman shoot up in Colorado years ago I wrote a smug FB post about how insane it was to sell AR15s for civilian use...
but confirming facts before I post is a bad habit of mine so imagine my shock to discover that they were absolutely available for sale in Canada at the time! They've been banned since 2020, but perfectly legal then. So why had exactly 0 mass murders been committed with the stupid things in Canada?
Regulation. You had to have been a sane genius living in a home with multiple gun safes (1 for the weapon, another for the ammo), been able to afford the ridiculous price, and also be able to tap dance blindfolded while jumping 7m in the air through moving hoops. You know who complained about that?
NOBODY. Meanwhile south of our border, some clown high school truant with a documented history of posting racisr misogyny on social media can stroll into the neighborhood big box, and waltz out with a sub-machine gun and enough ammo to take out LHR? YEAH, NAH.
I hate the "GuNs DoN't KiLL pEoPLe" shite, but it's the vile culture more than anything else responsible. Only 🇺🇸 thinks selling guns in the aisle between kids toys & boxed mac'n'cheese is a good idea, & only 🇺🇸s are emotionally unwell enough en masse, that massacre's now a national hobby. #SHAME
Meanwhile, the sane world thanks Australia very much for this fine export. It's years old, and still my go-to: youtu.be/0rR9IaXH1M0?...
youtu.be/a9UFyNy-rw4?...
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Agreed on all points except the supremacy of regulation. As I always point out, Peter Drucker famously said that "culture eats strategy for breakfast". Regulation is strategy. It will continue to have zero effect unless and until Americans finally change their culture of "guns = safety and freedom".
Oh, I think we're very much on the same page there, I'm sorry i was unclear. Regulation works for 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇨🇭🇩🇪🇨🇦, and all other peer nations because our cultures are healthy. Regulation will never work in the USA for all the reasons Jim Jeffries points out. It's just too late.
Which reminds me of the 1st sentence in your original reply. Luckily, I'm far too kind to inflict THAT Ted Talk on you for free! 🤣😂🤣
💯 It's far too late for the US. The US is far too happy to continue sacrificing school children to ever reconsider their insane view that "guns = safety and freedom".