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Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan
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The same reason people insist making all guns go away will make crazy and violent people stop being crazy and violent.
We don't want to admit we have a People Problem. We don't want to fix the mental health care industry in America because we'd rather pretend those people don't exist. We don't want to admit that an entire generation of "parents" failed to raise their kids with empathy and/or coping skills because it was easier to hand them a tablet or smartphone and keep them quiet. We don't want to admit that getting kids hooked on amphetamines by age 6 because they're "hyperactive" was a really, really, REALLY bad idea.
Human beings demand a Convenient Boogeyman so they don't have to come up with Actual Solutions. It HAS to be guns, or video games, or TV and Movies.
It's never, EVER Human Error, or the fact that human beings come out of the box sh*tty and are only going to get sh*ttier as they age, unless they're raised properly. Admitting it's a People Problem is discouraging, because the solutions are more complicated than anyone wants to deal with.
Oh, but if the problem is something we can scream about, march against, and write up a bunch of meaningless legislation that punishes and inconveniences those who obey the law while keeping things "business as usual" for those who don't... well, that's easy.