Sandy Hook should have ended private gun ownership in America.

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30. When we get rid of guns and ammo sales we'll need a new way to fund wildlife.

Over 80% of Americans support wildlife conservation. Currently near 80% of funding for conservation comes from excise taxes collected on the sale of guns/ammo, and fishing equipment.

No gun and ammo sales = no money from the top revenue source (Pittman-Robertson Funds), which were enacted as user fees on hunters in 1937. Those funds have done TREMENDOUS good in setting aside habitat.


In 2020 roughly 40K of 49K gun homicides in the US occurred in METRO AREAS. There is a very clear asymmetry in gun homicides that occur in Metro vs Non Metro areas. Most non-metro area homicides are suicides. Most Metro area gun homicides are related to crime, frequently gang or variously organized criminals.

As you might expect that results in a very polarized orientation between metro and non-metro citizens to the gun problems we face.

The 2nd amendment doesn't take these differences into account, it applies to the United States like a universal coat of paint.

And THAT is what mostly is in the way of Metro areas developing common sense gun regulation for their communities' alarmingly high rate of gun homicides.

I think the US could deal with gun homicides if solutions were allowed to reflect both Community Problems and Community based
desires for solutions.