Gun violence - any viable solutions?

Not going to argue Inter-linear with you.  It’s a waste of time since your mind is already made up about your righteousness and I won’t change it. Two points, however:

1. It is not impossible for someone who doesn’t own a gun to commit a gun death:  I hope you will see a difference between owning a firearm and possessing a firearm.  Many of the homicides are committed by those possessing a gun that they do not own.  Sandy Hook, for example, the kid stole guns from his mother.  He used them, but did not own them.
2. I do not believe there is a greater lust for killing here than elsewhere.  There might be more people shot and killed here because there are more guns readily available, but I cannot rationally believe the U.S.A. Has more per capita killing than, for example, some middle eastern country who’s main religion devalues human life so ... ahem ... religiously.  If you have some stats to back that statement up, I want to review them.

I will not apologize for stating my opinion on abortion or any other topic.  That you cannot seem to grasp those posts in the abortion thread are my opinions, despite me repeating “in my opinion” is not my responsibility.  Further, as I’ve said many, many times, at least once to you, specifically, all you have to do to change my mind is disprove either one of the two scientific facts about a fertilized egg.  I get you’re frustrated that you cannot disprove either of them, but that, also, is not my concern.

one last thing: The aged old redirection gambit, “I know you are but what am I?” never worked over at TOB when they tried it, and it is similarly non sequitur here.  You might even believe I am guilty as well, but that doesn’t mean you are not. 🤷🏻‍♂️

When you consider this country was founded by virtue of a violent revolution, and had acted as the world's police ever since, it shouldn't be much of a surprise it's part of the American psyche.

The world is a violent place. We can be the hammer, or the nail. We choose... I choose... The hammer.

I think the average NRA member has 4-5.

Choose 1 of these scenarios, or offer another alternative that would have you feel safer about being protecting your new granddaughter...

Outlaw the manufacture of any more guns?

What if it were illegal to own ANY assault looking WEAPON?

Background checks for gun ownership?

Increase the # of trained people with CCW permits?

Wow... 150 million have died here because of gun violence since 2007?

I guess we really DO have a problem with violence. 🙄

I'm not saying that, that is what you have concluded.  Please stop attributing your thoughts as being my statements.

I don't know if liberty leads to increased violence, I was throwing out possibilities.  Liberty & freedom are a double edged sword, people can use it for nefarious things.  There are plenty of liberties that we have in the US that other countries prohibit, such as free speech.  I'm not going to make a full list, if you are that interested, google it.  The point is we have more liberty & freedom here than anywhere else and there are some people who use that freedom to step upon others.

I never wrote that mixing of ethnicities is a problem, rather that that could be an explanation of why our country is inherently more violent than other countries.  It is human nature to look at "outsiders" with distrust.  In the past, when limited travel ability led to countries being more homogeneous, people would look at neighboring countries as the enemy.  There would be violence, but it wouldn't be citizen against citizen, rather it would be nation against nation.  Now in the US, you have the Muslim living down the street from the Jew, the Pakistanis are neighbors with the family who moved here from India and the Englishman and Irishmen see each other daily at the coffee shop.  Distrust that used to be across borders is now more easily carried inside the border between citizens and could lead to violence that used to be categorized as war.

Not a proven reason, just a theory.