We could and should do these and myriad other things to make our society better-even if we did not have a gun violence problem. Political leaders should ensure that policies enhance community social capital-improving parenting, and reducing discrimination, bullying, and alcohol misuse for example. There are many ways to reduce violent, suicidal, and unsafe behaviours that don’t involve changing our firearm system, including improvements to mental health, educational, and criminal justice systems. These groups include medical providers and the media, insurers, and standards writing organizations, unions and universities, foundations and the faith community. Many more groups and institutions should be actively involved in reducing the harms caused by firearm violence. State bans on large capacity magazines have been associated with fewer and less lethal mass shootings. To reduce mortality from mass shootings, military weapons should be left to the military. 10 The government should also conduct research on better alternatives for self defence than handguns, which are relatively ineffective without considerable training, and pose a substantial health threat to family members from suicide, accidents, and interpersonal violence. The US government should undertake research and development to advance both microstamping and smart gun technology. Over 300 000 guns a year are stolen in the US, according to national estimates. Among other benefits, smart guns would decrease gun theft.
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To reduce crime, it should be much more difficult to obliterate a gun’s serial number-currently, many recovered guns are untraceable all guns should be capable of ballistic fingerprinting to help identify from a spent bullet the precise firearm used-it should also be possible to determine who originally bought a particular gun, along with the last legal owner (through gun registration) and guns should be difficult for unauthorized persons to use. 8 Semi automatic handguns should not fire if the magazine is removed-the most common cause of accidental gun death in children is believing a gun is unloaded when it can still fire a bullet. 7 Guns should be made childproof-currently 2 to 4 year olds have relatively high rates of accidental gun death, and they typically shoot themselves. For example, ensure that guns that cannot go off inadvertently or when they are dropped. Here are some items that the blueprint might contain. 5 Perhaps it could come from a national non-partisan commission of independent experts that agree on a goal (for example, access to guns for home defence combined with low rates of firearm crime, homicide, suicide and accidents) and provide a blueprint for achieving and maintaining that outcome. Current policy discussions are fragmented, considering only isolated measures, one-at-a time. How can the US learn to live more safely with guns? The key is to have a national plan. In 2020, more than 120 American civilians per day were killed by guns. 2 3 In 2015, the US death rate from firearms was over 11 times higher than that of other high income countries. 1 But we have many more private guns per capita, particularly handguns and military grade firearms.
We are also causing many deaths in neighbouring nations, as US guns are readily available to criminals in Mexico, Jamaica, and Canada.Ĭompared to other high income countries, the US is average in terms of (non-gun) crime and violence. The US will probably always have lots of guns, so we need to learn to live with them.
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