the state of Mississippi is 1st in something besides fatasses............

[Cooterpoot]

Just to stir the ammo pot, I'll give up my ARs when our government officials stop having armed guards with them. Obviously they aren't needed for protection, right? I mean, who wants to be able to defend themselves from multiple intruders or threats? I'm for a 21 age limit (excluding military and law enforcement). That's it for me.
If I'm a business owner and the lefty nut jobs started looting and burning my place, I should be able to drop as many rounds in their sorry asses as I can fire.
I'd rather arrest worthless parents that do nothing with their kids. Those are the real damn criminals (I'm somewhat joking but not really).

[Dolphus Raymond]

Let?s just keep doing what we have been doing (Nothing.) because it is working so well.
There are two things I do not argue about:
1. The earth being round, and
2. Whether stricter gun laws save lives.
Sadly, it will take a few more dead school children before we have the courage to change.

[Kylesandi338]

Nothing will solve these problems except a change in mentality of these thugs and children. Mississippi is #1 in children being born to unmarried woman. The problem isn't guns, the problem is the mentality of these folks and the lack of father figures to raise these kids and give them guidance to become successful young men. Not to mention the courts are 100% against Men in general when it comes to custody and the system is setup to reward woman to have more children with Socialist benefits. The entire system is working how they planned it to work. And like anything the Gov. touches, they screw it up!

[Johnson85]

Let?s just keep doing what we have been doing (Nothing.) because it is working so well.
There are two things I do not argue about:
1. The earth being round, and
2. Whether stricter gun laws save lives.
Sadly, it will take a few more dead school children before we have the courage to change.

What do you want to change? It's just not hard for losers to kill people and we're not going to have a society that makes it hard. There are weapons all over the place. Cars and trucks are pretty damn effective weapons. It's not hard to get a hold of poison. You can't reasonably stop people from getting a hold of sharp objects.

And lots of young men are weird as shit but don't end up killing anybody. You want to start locking them up by the hundreds or thousands to stop the three or four that would have ended up being killers?

We could probably reduce the number of school shootings with stricter gun control laws, but at the expense of making many more people susceptible to violence, both violence inflicted with gun and without. It's hardly a given (and seems unlikely) that that would be a net positive.

And we could reduce more typical gun deaths with consistent enforcement of existing laws and more severe punishment, but we already incarcerate a lot of people. Just about every murderer has a prior crime that they could have been in jail for, but a lot of people with crimes that they could be in jail for don't end up murdering anybody.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Mississippi also has the highest percentage of African Americans by state. African Americans accounted for 55% of all homicides committed in the US according to the FBI in 2019.

[Cooterpoot]

Drug deaths are more than double gun deaths. You guys let me know how that war on drugs is going. I'll hang up and wait.

[Extendedcab]

Thats right, let's blame an inanimate object and forget individual accountability. So, given this belief, let's outlaw all vehicles as they have also been used in murdering innocent people. Or how about outlawing knives as a man in China killed 30 people with a knife before he was subdued. Where do you stop with this madness? It is not the inanimate object that kills it is the individual that picks up that object with the intent to do harm. The individual should be held accountable - you know the way it used to be.

When I was in grade school (early 1960s), I carried a pocket knife to school as did most all boys of that day. Yes we got in arguments, scuffled and fought but we never drew a knife on another person. We never threatened anyone with our knives.

Older high-school kids came to schools in vehicles with gun racks that carried shot guns and rifles but we never had a shooting.

The problem is not the object used to do harm but the person behind the object - pick your choice of object. The problem with society is that we have lost our moral compass as a society. The Supreme Court expelled God from the public schools in 1962 and 1963, when they ruled that prayer and Bible reading in school had become unconstitutional. Today the moral precepts of the Ten Commandments can no longer hang on the walls of our children's public classrooms - instead we have drag queens in the classroom and public libraries. Yet many people can't understand why we strayed from biblical principles and turned out so rootless and rebellious.