The problem is crime is a BEHAVIORAL problem, not a hardware issue. There have been a number of school attacks in China and Japan where crazies have stabbed numerous kids to death with kitchen knives. Banning guns does little good, especially in a country with about 300,000,000 of them already and where it is increasingly easy to make them at home.
One of the largest school mass murders was a very creepy story. A disgruntled employee of the school built a bomb under the school and killed a ton of people. It’s a long time ago...1920’s or such? And it could have been worse if I remember, only one of the two bombs went off or something like that.
“Banning guns does little good, especially in a country with about 300,000,000 of them already and where it is increasingly easy to make them at home.”
Similarly, with firearms, the figure of 300 million has been bandied about for a couple of decades, as about half the years since have set records for new gun purchases (and the others are high enough that they would have ALL been records 20 years ago, by a big margin). The correct figure is probably north of 500 million, and all of this talk of banning guns has undoubtedly set the stage for this year to be yet another record.
By the way, people die on a fairly regular basis. Guns, if taken only decent care of, can last for well over a century. I know people who have many firearms from the 1800s, and there are literally millions that have rifles and handguns produced during WW1 and WW2 - almost none of the latter will cease to be functional in the next 20 years.
I don’t say this because I am a statistics Nazi, but because I want everyone to realize the power that is in the hands of the civilian population of this country - starting with those very civilians, but most definitely extending to the gun-grabbing, would-be tyrants in DC and the various state capitols. Make them realize that the task before them is SO difficult that it is literally impossible - and that’s before 3-D printing with metal really gets off the ground for the general public. Make them give up their quest for civilian disarmament for the simple reason that it is an impossible task.