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Gun laws not changing after every mass shooting incident
Quick search indicates 342 million people in the United States according to their census, i tried to find the total amount of American citizens but that statistics doesn’t appear easy to find, if we divide it in half and say 171 million US citizens who all potentially own 1 maybe 2 maybe 5 maybe 10 firearms, even if the laws were to change federally at any point do you think every citizen is going to comply?
Even the Canadian government struggles confiscating firearms from licensed owners, and that’s closer to 2 million firearms now prohibited, I can’t imagine how Americans would handle it.
Easy. Make it socially unacceptable.
Happened with smoking.
Firearms aren’t a social issue, you can’t stop people from camping in forests and using firearms as a tool for wilderness defence or folks who hunt and trap for a profession, not to mention people who live in remote locations where a Walmart is hours away opposed to minutes (I can’t confirm this last point for the US, but this is certainly a Canadian issue).
Target shooting is also recognized as an Olympic sport globally, you want to prevent teams from practicing their sport?
Every other country has gun laws and still competes in shooting targets. Difference is they do t run through schools murdering
Canada 2026 - Tumbler Ridge school shooting
Australia 2024 - Atlantis Beach Baptist College school shooting
Germany 2026 - Welfen-Gymnasium school shooting
France & Austria 2025 - School shootings 2 hours apart from each other
Gun control helps minimize these incidents, sure, buts is certainly not a be all end all solution. Also Canada’s Wes Stevens heads to world shooting championships without a firearm due to countries regulations.