Guns: how much longer will it take ....

Don't you have very tight restrictions on guns though? Yet, criminals still use guns... How is that possible Walter?

Don't you have very tight restrictions on guns though? Yet, criminals still use guns... How is that possible Walter?

I don't think that we have tight restrictions (nor does the police), but compared to the USA: we have - like any other country in the world.

Criminals use guns which they got legally or illegally here.

It is a right defined since the countries founding.

**** hole police.

I was only referring the the USA.

To expand a bit with my own thinking, the United States, in pursuit of that individualistic goal of gaining money (capital), the societal pressures have fractured communities and families into increasingly smaller units to promote competition.

The nuclear family, that is, parents and their minor children in a household, is relatively new to the human experience. It used to be you lived with several generations under a single roof. Before that people lived with clans and tribes.

Now we're all broken apart. A socially adapted species that created a society where socialization and communal living in all its forms is either monetized, demonized, or discouraged.

We put grandparents in homes so we can work and not be bothered with their lives or care. The system drains all their wealth to make sure nothing passes down. (Medicare won't pay for it until you're flat broke. This destroyed my grandpa, a survivor of the Great Depression, who was hugely money conscious his whole life but whose wife was struck down by an incompetent doctor and several strokes.)

Without grandparents to help, childcare falls to strangers in day cares and later school. (I am the child of teachers and a former teacher myself, school should be more than a warehouse for kids, but that's where we're at.) This drains resources from working parents.

We live in neighborhoods of largely strangers as we try to desperately form those missing connections with lives online. There are no aunts or uncles houses to visit down the road. There are no cousins coming over to play.

We live alone with a tiny family unit and outsource our literal heritage as a species to strangers so that we can earn money to put into the system that created and perpetuates the lie that everyone must work all the time. Your child must attend school for a work day and then come home with more work to do. When they're a newly minted adult they're told to leave and join the work force or go to college and get saddled with immense debt. Our mothers and fathers live in quiet childless retirement until they're unable to care for themselves and are put away so the system can slowly, inevitably, drain the rest of them away.

People are lonely and radicalized by the online world because the community they seek, the companionship, the socialization, has been stamped out by a world in which those things couldn't be properly monetized. Families have to live in their own homes alone so that their parents and children can go out and buy more homes and things to fill those houses.

The prices go up and up and up but pay never does. The pressure builds, and then when it's become impossible to prosper, they do the only thing they can: buy a gun, lash out, burn bright for a second, and then wither away.