It's a cultural problem in the USA. It's a young country which was founded on guns so they're lying around people's houses as casually as Europeans might have a vacuum cleaner or lawnmower. With guns so entrenched in people's domestic lives there are bound to be tragedies a-plenty, as indeed there regularly are. It won't be an easy job changing people's mindset, but it needs to be done. I suppose some psychological work will be essential, not just law changes. The kind of approach that's gradually changed public views against tobacco smoking or drink-driving.
IIN to think people should stop blaming guns?
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It's a cultural problem in the USA. It's a young country which was founded on guns so they're lying around people's houses as casually as Europeans might have a vacuum cleaner or lawnmower. With guns so entrenched in people's domestic lives there are bound to be tragedies a-plenty, as indeed there regularly are. It won't be an easy job changing people's mindset, but it needs to be done. I suppose some psychological work will be essential, not just law changes. The kind of approach that's gradually changed public views against tobacco smoking or drink-driving.