What no politician wants to admit about gun control - Vox:
Think about it this way. In 2013, the US had 106.4 gun deaths per million people. That same year, the UK endured 144 gun deaths total — or 2.2 gun deaths per million people. To get to UK levels, we'd need to reduce gun deaths by over 98 percent.Think of it this way: European countries (generally speaking) have homogeneous populations.
America is unique in it's primary identity as a "nation of emigrants": Homogeniety is limited here to everyone has an opinion and feels free to express it.
Americans don't always get along; and those nationals who choose to leave their home country and come to "The Land of the Brave and the Home of the Free" bring their internecine biases with them.
(Liberals think this 'dichotomy of world view' adds to the flavor; conservatives are grumpy about "outsiders". What would we be if we all agreed with each other ... and so this is perhaps the most perfect world view.) ... not a quote; an opinion.
This makes it much more difficult to confiscate guns in America (Second Amendment), but not impossible; if a sufficient number of Americans can be convinced that the right to possess a gun is "not just not a good idea, but a BAD idea!", it should be relatively easy for laws to be passed which ignore the "Embarrassing Second Amendment".
(Note: reserve some private time before clicking on Sanford Levinson's uncomfortable screed on 2nd Amendment Rights: you may find it ... discomforting.)
Fortunately the NOQ REPORT has compiled a list of measures which
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