[paulvnickerson]

It's not a gun problem that we have in this country. Iryna Zarutska was murdered with a pocket knife. What we have is a spiritual sickness, which cannot be legislated...

The only thing I can think of that the government can do is to clamp down hard on violence, including speech which advocates for violence (e.g. glorifying Luigi Mangione, calling everyone a Nazi/fascist, etc.). Freedom of speech ends where it actually turns into violence.

[amanaplanacanal]

If we cracked down on speech calling for violence, the president would be in jail instead of the white house. I don't see that happening.

[8note]

there still is a gun problem.

you might have some blind spots yourself though. the biggest set of spiritual sickness and violence are whats happening to immigrants by ICE, and the support americans are giving to israel to do mass horrors to gazan civilians.

theres tons of violence going on thats much more current than talking about luigi or calling somebody who is a fascist a fascist

[tln]

I'm not sure we have a "the government" with all the federation involved; and a treacherous administration.

Reducing rights to speech that advocates for violence makes some sense, but what I'd like to see is reducing the lies and disinformation. Install a duty of candor to everyone who speaks in greatly public ways

[tim333]

If you got rid of the guns, killings wouldn't go to zero but might go down 10x.

[shadowgovt]

Correct. Someone might have still killed Charlie Kirk.

It's unlikely they would have killed him anonymously, from 200 yards away, and be still at large a day later.