The problem is [to keep this short and sweet] is that banning them is unrealistic. It's just never going to happen at all under any circumstances. Too many Americans own guns [large voting bloc], too much money is in the firearm industry [an economic and lobbying concern], and too many guns exist in this country [there would be no way to remove even a tenth of them from the population]. We need a more realistic option. Imposing new regulations and requirements for registration would not be an immediate means of solving the problem, but it's one that IS realistic...and any currently-registered firearm could be easily transferred into such a program. As for the guns that are already in illegal circulation, well, this registry system could help track what weapon goes where, and hopefully pinpoint guns in improper hands.
The wikipedia article was just to show in which cases shootings happen more in. There was five listings, in fact, and one thing I noticed was that it happened mostly in high schools, and usually by a disgruntled or ostracized student, which, as we all know, IS a very glaring problem and has a lot to do with our education system needing better funding and retooling. They need to start making class sizes much smaller and allow for greater focus and more discipline in the classrooms, for one thing.
Also you are very correct, there is very much a sentiment among NRA members wherein they become obsessively and excessively vehement about anyone touching their guns, but if you can show them that they can keep their guns and that they just need to provide registry and responsibility, they'll probably be much more accommodating to the idea than saying "get rid of guns." They won't go for that.
I think the first step for gun-control would be to appeal to opposition and come to agreements without entering into the whole "legislation first, discussion second" mentality that suddenly swept the nation after the latest school shootings. Too many knee-jerk reactions all around, no wonder barely any of it [in fact I don't think any of it did, did it?] went through.
The wikipedia article was just to show in which cases shootings happen more in. There was five listings, in fact, and one thing I noticed was that it happened mostly in high schools, and usually by a disgruntled or ostracized student, which, as we all know, IS a very glaring problem and has a lot to do with our education system needing better funding and retooling. They need to start making class sizes much smaller and allow for greater focus and more discipline in the classrooms, for one thing.
Also you are very correct, there is very much a sentiment among NRA members wherein they become obsessively and excessively vehement about anyone touching their guns, but if you can show them that they can keep their guns and that they just need to provide registry and responsibility, they'll probably be much more accommodating to the idea than saying "get rid of guns." They won't go for that.
I think the first step for gun-control would be to appeal to opposition and come to agreements without entering into the whole "legislation first, discussion second" mentality that suddenly swept the nation after the latest school shootings. Too many knee-jerk reactions all around, no wonder barely any of it [in fact I don't think any of it did, did it?] went through.
