Canada's Prime Minister mandates examination of a full ban on handguns and assault weapons

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@burllamb

Seriously - it’s a rounding error to zero, a tiny tiny percentage of under 1%. Same for the percentage of gun owners who do something untoward with their guns to another person.

This is seriously flawed reasoning. It’s still 10s of thousands of people per year. Please do not use the law of large numbers to wave away gun violence in the US. It’s BS.

@burllamb

Assuming the 2nd Amendment stays in place, and I can not see it being overturned, we are going to have tons of guns. We are not going to have significantly fewer guns even if we tried programs to turn them in for cash, and criminals are always going to have access to guns.

Sweet use of the NRA’s talking points. Here’s the rub: maybe we shouldn’t just throw our hands up in the air and give up when it’s worked elsewhere. Ask Australians.

@burllamb

Overturn the idiotic Republican efforts to bar the CDC from developing a robust gun violence database. We need the best available and best verified information.

Needs more study. Check.

@burllamb

As far as I have been able to determine, most gun violence comes from inner city zip codes associated with narco business and gangs. If we legalize drugs, perhaps we can significantly reduce the narco business. It worked with Prohibition and Al Capone.

It’s black and brown people. Check.

@burllamb

We have way too many school shootings, and at the same time we have well-meaning people (who I think are misguided) actually fighting the idea of tightening security in schools. I don’t see why schools are not offered the same security features every public building in the civilised world enjoys: limited ingress through metal detectors and monitoring of all egress points. You can’t shoot up a school if you can’t sneak a gun into it.

Spend billions to harden schools into prisons, rather than have reasonable gun control. Check.

@burllamb

We will never have a good national conversation about guns if we can not stop our binary thinking about the issues.

“Fewer Guns” is not binary, unless your only way of thinking about it is “All guns, all the time” vs. “no guns.” The only people who I encounter who refuse to talk about the issue are pro-gun. And their position is uniformly towards zero regulation, blind to the limitations that legally existed as recently as the '90s or even now.