When your youth have an epidemic of mental illness, you should ask yourself if gun control in itself makes a difference regarding criminality.
However I have yet to see how guns brought more good than evil during the approx 200 years of US existence. I know there is a second amendement and gun culture is well established so it's pretty clear for me that our elites don't need to remove guns when instead they can make you believe that holding a gun is more important than freedom of speech or for example, the health you should have had as the wealthiest country in the world today.
Yet no one bats an eye as long as they have their GuNs .
I would love to see where you think America is the wealthiest country in the world. Go on, cite your sources as to how wealthy we are as a nation. We are not wealthy. Our wealth is unequally distributed and the middle class has been bearing the burden of supporting the poor while the elite go on their merry way.
Also you can't compare 200 years of American history with modern events. Shit you can't even compare 100 years of American history with today. 100 years ago, a farmer, a cattleman, a frontiersman NEEDED a gun to survive, and no I'm not talking about First Nation warfare but simply defending your livestock from predators, bandits, and those who saw $$$ in stealing your shit before the lawman arrived. People still live in remote areas and yes, guns are sorta a requirement. So your straw man doesn't work here.
Likewise, using a straw man about "Your YOUTH have an epidemic of Mental Illness" is also BS, the reason it's news is because it always comes out later that the white kid that shot up the school had a history of mental illness and the enabling parent/caregiver gave in or had a gun on premises that the kid used to do the deed.
Mental Illness is an epidemic but it's not limited to age, we have soldiers coming home from war, we have children who are dealing with poverty and institutionalized racist policy, we have people who are living hand to mouth existences in Appalachia and live in "homes" that are nothing more than shacks that could be seen in any third world country.
America is NOT wealthy at all.
As of 2020 America is actually 10th in the world in regards to wealth. Even though we have the largest "economy" as in we buy a lot of shit, we don't produce and generate money for the amount of shit we buy. Our businesses outsource the work to China and other countries to keep the prices down so American's can buy the stuff, but that just means we aren't producing and the disparity between the haves and have nots grows wider. Compared to Qatar that has oil and natural resources which we consume to make everything from plastics to run our cars. Source:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-richest-countries-in-the-world.html
ank | Country | GDP Per Capita (USD ) |
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1 | Qatar | 132,890 |
2 | Luxembourg | 108,950 |
3 | Singapore | 103,180 |
4 | Ireland | 83,400 |
5 | Brunei | 80,380 |
6 | Norway | 76,680 |
7 | United Arab Emirates | 69,430 |
8 | Kuwait | 66,390 |
9 | Switzerland | 66,200 |
10 | United States | 65,110 |