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Rhymes With "Brass Seagull"'s avatar

Amen. A gun buyback would go along way to reducing America's staggering and brutal epidemic of gun violence. But only if it is done correctly, of course.

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PK Pineapple's avatar

Wow, this take seems to have zero awareness of the culture in which both our relationship to gun ownership and the epidemic of mass shootings stem from. You cannot compare the US with New Zealand or the UK, we do not have anything near the same culture or conditions and it’s ridiculous to base a solution on what was successful in those places. Our depraved culture of toxic individualism - pathological selfishness, indifference to the suffering of the vulnerable, contempt for empathy and compassion - that id the problem. No one who would shoot up a school is ever going to value money over their guns, few people who have those tendencies would sell their guns. The guns have a great deal of value to them. How can you not recognize that?

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