You are not the only one who thinks this way friend. You are not wrong. Most of us here in America are kind of with you. I quit posting in the other forum for the same reason as you, and probably so have many others. I just swing by every month or two.
I find listening to people talking about opening fire on immigrants at the border and mowing down children to be despicable. In the other forum that is an argument I cant win. I find that bringing civil war to our nation is bad, I find that killing every leftist in the country is bad. But those are the ideals of the other forum. But trust me, that small majority of wakos, does not represent the rest of us. But they most certainly are giving our nation a bad name.
It was not even the people who elected Trump, he lost the election. It was the electoral college that put him in office. His bas is a small majority of people in this country. It is just that they are so vile, and so hateful, and violent natured that they appear to be more than they are. But they are not. They are just loud, and abrasive and stand out. It is like they are photobombing our nation LoL.
Not only that there are lots of people at his rallies, so people think he has tons of people. But what they don't know is that those people are cult like and they follow him from rally to rally across the nation. So those people at his rally could be half of his base, who traveled from all over just to be in his shinning presence. It is really a cult like thing. But honestly fascism is taking over the globe. It has gotten its tentacles into many nations. As Noam Chomsky said Fascism could be the worlds greatest threat.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2019/...-assange-more/
The thing about my nation I cant attest for others is we have a criminal undercurrent. For instance drugs are illegal, but it does not stop anyone from getting those drugs. I don't see it much now because I live in the woods, Gods be praised. But, when I did live in the city it was awful. It felt unsafe. There were home invasions and shootings burgularies, all manner of personal crimes. I will tell you for certain most of those crimes that took place with guns, were not legal firearms. On many occasions people survived home invasions in our nation because they had a gun and were able to protect themselves. What do you do when you take away the guns from the law obiding citicens and the only ones left with guns are the criminals.
I will say that most "mass" shootings seem to be done with legally purchased guns. But we have nearly 40,000 people per year killed by guns in our nation, I am betting most of those are with illegal black market guns.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...evels-cdc-2017 Although I am personally not a fan of guns. I do take this into consideration.
When I lived in the city there was always an undercurrent of fear. I don't own a gun, so I wouldn't have any way to protect myself. Every morning when I would turn on the news I would hear of new home invasions, or robberies. It seems like those kinds of crimes were on the rise. This is the reason I like to consider all sides. That is just my personal experience.
But 100% we should ban assault rifles. No one needs those. We should require everyone who legally owns a gun, to take safety classes several times per year. These classes can be used to evaluate if a person is a danger, and if they are remove that persons gun rights. Also the classes could teach how to lock those guns up so your kids cant have access to them, and wont be able to shoot up a school with them. There are a lot of things we could do. We aren't doing any of them.
I don't know what is right. But we have a serious problem. It is complicated, but doing nothing is not an option.
But it will be hard for you to get your point across to people like we have in the other forum. They are the kind that argue with you weather the genocide in Yemen is right or wrong. Well, not much you can say to a person like that. Your words of reason will be seen as a threat to their freedoms. But your view is not wrong. Even though I am not 100% on board, You are not wrong. You are seeing a big picture and a solution. It is legit, and good.
But keep in mind we live in a country that is plagued with crime. Those crimes are often committed with illegal black market weapons. Here is a link to how many crimes we had in 2017 just so you get an idea.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...type-of-crime/ We cant stop the criminals from having these weapons. They will use them on the good people. If we take away those good responsible peoples weapons they will have no way to protect themselves. Criminals will be the only ones with guns. This is a real scenario. All over the US people go to sleep uneasy, because crime is rampant.