GiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 7 months agoA simple device could help curb accidental gun deaths, but most firearms don’t have itwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down18
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minus-squareGiddyGap@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down5·7 months agoIt’s perfectly preventable in other countries. In the western world, this is pretty much a uniquely American experience.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·7 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-down2·7 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.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 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.
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.