“When we saw something like that happen, everyone said, ‘Never again,” New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern told Stephen Colbert last night about the the 2019 massacre at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 51. In the aftermath of the shooting that left 51 people dead and dozens more injured, New Zealand banned semi-automatic weapons. The country also spent $65 million to compensate gun-owners who gave up their rifles. The gun buy-back removed about 60,000 guns from the supply, according to the
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.
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?
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.
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?
Well that would be pretty dumb because they’ve never worked before