I showed just a page or 4 back where the GOP brought up programs that would have improved on a reporting system that would have done a lot to curb the majority of these incidents. It also addressed mental health.However, he's talking to the larger, over-arching problem which the Republicans have acknowledged but have done nothing about and when they start cutting the availability, they are making the problem worse. They may not be trying to make the problem worse but, they are.
It was filibustered by the DNC.
See, there is a lot of people repeating the "GOP isn't doing anything" as rhetoric, in fact it has been a fairly constant comment - Ted Cruz went on CNN and did a 15 minute interview for them discussing what the GOP want to do. What happened? CNN didn't air it.
The reason you are not seeing the GOP's plans, or the ways they want to proceed is not because of the GOP wanting to do nothing. It is entirely because the sources that the GOP uses to get it's message out. They suck at it, rather royally.
Trump has definitely gone off the farm though, and is suggesting confiscation and a few other rather drastic measures. Even Feinstein is friggin giddy about the idea.
I have been over this in thorough depth, on this forum, before. Sorry you have missed it. The first part you have to realize, it that is NOT true.Josh how do you explain why every other countries that regulate guns has lower homicide rates/less gun related crimes? How do you explain why gun-related deaths/shootings went down after more controls were placed on gun ownership - namely Switzerland and Australia? I'm honestly curious because what limited data points we have seem to suggest that reducing the number of guns and limiting ownership leads to a safer country.
The second part you need to know is that, minus the gang on gang related crime, the US has a gun homicide rate lower than Britain. On that, for registered concealed carry gun owners in TX, the homicide rate is less than half that of Britain.
The majority of high crime in the US, 90% of all high crime areas, are in areas with high levels of Gun Control already. The 'Blueist' areas of the nation also overlay with the highest levels of gun crime. They already have had historically high gun controls, even making ownership illegal. Like DC. That did not reduce crime, but allowed those areas to become the most dangerous sections of the US. In fact, 2% of the counties in the US cover 51% of the total homicides. If you notice, the high level of gun regluation in California does nothing to stop this, and they have the 'Redist' sections: https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/nu...s-69-1-murder/
Again - that is due to gang on gang territory violence.
Also, you need to look at total homicides vs gun homicides. In most cases, homicide rates went up, even gun deaths went up, directly following gun control.
In addition, the gun homicide rate has been decreasing over decades, after the popularity of Crack decreased. Partially because overall homicide rates are going down. Same with rape. and several other metrics.
If you want I can mine this, but the last time this came up I put up yards of supporting data, which seems to offend people on here for some reason. One small bit:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...n_2378073.html
https://www.statista.com/chart/3848/...her-countries/"Chicago?s McCarthy said the city?s high murder rate, up 18 percent over last year as of Dec. 16, was due to gang violence. Eighty percent of the homicides were gang-related and 80 percent of the victims were African-Americans, he said."
US Murder rate: 5.2
Average Europe rate: 1
80% of 5 is... 1
We have a gang problem. And most of that is because of how we deal with drugs.
Small additional edit. I believe we have moved to #11 currently - I will see if I can find the updated data.