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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·5 months agoIndividual tragedies are never going to be prevented. You might as well mandate kids exist in giant hamster balls 24/7. Oh, but then they might suffocate.
minus-squareGiddyGap@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·5 months agoIt’s perfectly preventable in other countries. In the western world, this is pretty much a uniquely American experience.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·5 months agoYou can’t undo the 2nd amendment, there are over 400 million guns in the country. The fact that there are only 11 deaths per year on a population of 400 million guns shows just how insignificant the problem is. It’s not even a “1 in a million” kind of thing. It’s a 1 in 36 million kind of thing.
minus-squareGiddyGap@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·5 months agoIt seems Trump has no problem advocating for undoing the 14th Amendment to ban birthright citizenship. If he does that, I see no problem undoing the 2nd Amendment.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoYeah, no amendment can be undone in the current climate. Doing it requires 290 votes in the House, a body that last needed 15 tries to get a 218 vote simple majority to decide who their own leader will be. Then you need a 67 vote majority in the Senate, a body that’s blocked from doing anything by a 60 vote majority to break a filibuster. If by some miracle, both of those things happen, then the change needs to be ratified by 38 states. In the last election, Trump won 31 states, so he’d need 7 Harris states to back him on repealing an amendment. Aint happening.
Individual tragedies are never going to be prevented. You might as well mandate kids exist in giant hamster balls 24/7.
Oh, but then they might suffocate.
It’s perfectly preventable in other countries. In the western world, this is pretty much a uniquely American experience.
You can’t undo the 2nd amendment, there are over 400 million guns in the country.
The fact that there are only 11 deaths per year on a population of 400 million guns shows just how insignificant the problem is.
It’s not even a “1 in a million” kind of thing.
It’s a 1 in 36 million kind of thing.
It seems Trump has no problem advocating for undoing the 14th Amendment to ban birthright citizenship. If he does that, I see no problem undoing the 2nd Amendment.
Yeah, no amendment can be undone in the current climate.
Doing it requires 290 votes in the House, a body that last needed 15 tries to get a 218 vote simple majority to decide who their own leader will be.
Then you need a 67 vote majority in the Senate, a body that’s blocked from doing anything by a 60 vote majority to break a filibuster.
If by some miracle, both of those things happen, then the change needs to be ratified by 38 states.
In the last election, Trump won 31 states, so he’d need 7 Harris states to back him on repealing an amendment. Aint happening.