So re the guns vs people challenge, it occurs to me that our problems may be framed as having an unidentified portion of the population for whom guns are enablers and have almost the effect of a narcotic drug in promoting their worst selves. Theoretically when we have people who abuse automobiles and our traffic laws we eventually make them ride the bus, if they live long enough to attract enough attention from our legal system. The basic step then with people who are a danger when combined with firearms is to either remove the individual to a place where they will have no access to firearms for a specified term or presumably for such people who don’t warrant incarceration is to ensure that they have the chance for a normal life among us as long as they accept that guns are not an acceptable part of that life for them - and the rest of us. But we don’t have the laws in place to really do any of these things.
So re the guns vs people challenge, it occurs to me that our problems may be framed as having an unidentified portion of the population for whom guns are enablers and have almost the effect of a narcotic drug in promoting their worst selves. Theoretically when we have people who abuse automobiles and our traffic laws we eventually make them ride the bus, if they live long enough to attract enough attention from our legal system. The basic step then with people who are a danger when combined with firearms is to either remove the individual to a place where they will have no access to firearms for a specified term or presumably for such people who don’t warrant incarceration is to ensure that they have the chance for a normal life among us as long as they accept that guns are not an acceptable part of that life for them - and the rest of us. But we don’t have the laws in place to really do any of these things.