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In reply to the discussion: Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg: St. Pete Police [View all]CTyankee
(63,893 posts)have been very successful. We didn't think we could practically ban tobacco and yet we were able to do it.
I think the fact that fewer people are owning guns tells us something about how people think about guns. It is also very telling that the NRA isn't flooding the internet and TV with PSA's aimed at getting people to think/act more seriously about gun safety and exactly the things you are saying. If any group should be doing this, it is the NRA. Yet all they do is whine about the Second Amendment. And short of an out and out repeal of it, I hope that there will be enough sane new appointees to the Supreme Court (as long as we hold on to the White House) to overturn it. But that is part of the larger issue which is a revamping of our U.S. Constitution, which is outdated and in need of major work.
But that is another conversation!