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dainkinkaide posted...

Your nation built itself on getting significant help from France and wanting representation in parliament. That's hardly "self reliance" or "defiance of authority".

Regardless, all anyone is really asking for as far as gun regulations are concerned is something like what Switzerland does: Criminal background checks and psychiatric evaluation before you can purchase a gun, mandatory permits for most guns and registration for all guns (preferably at a state level), and no gun show loophole. If you throw in Canada's limits on magazine capacity and/or restrictions on certain firearms preventing them from being used outside a gun range, then, as far as most gun control advocates are concerned, you'd be golden.

Then, to actually solve most gun violence once and for all, you just need to take the relatively simple step of ending poverty and racism.

You say that ending poverty is relatively simple, and yet no nation on earth has solved it.

I very much disagree with psychiatric evaluation, because that's giving the government power to determine who is allowed to have political representation.

I also disagree with registration, because as we've painfully learned. Registration is giving the government power of removal.