Terrible marksmanship though.
IDK what the solution to this is. Perhaps ensure those already convicted of gang activities or gun crimes are not released back onto the street. But I think this generation of TCH-raised gangsters are lost. We need to focus on preventing the next generation, though sex education, empowering young women, addressing any perceived benefits of having welfare babies and absolutely stopping multi-generational residency in TCH (it’s supposed to be a parachute so that your kids have opportunity to move up, not a multi- generational lifestyle).
Prevention is key, no question there.
I don't think the public housing thing is as key; most large European cities have high concentrations of public-ownership housing w/large portions of middle-class, employed, law-abiding citizens living in them.
There's an issue there in how public housing is designed, managed/operated there vs here.
But I digress.
I think addressing universal pharmacare, beginning w/universal access to contraception is an important part of tackling poverty.
I also think addressing the education gap between low-income and middle/high income students in our public school system is important. It should be said we do a better job of this than many jurisdictions around the world, but there remains ample room for improvement.
The single largest reason for the gap in studies is the long summer break, during which middle/high income students get to go to camp or on travel w/their parents, while most lower income students get to stay home and watch tv.
A combination investment that shortens the summer break by 2 weeks, and moves to ensure at least 2 weeks of learning enrichment for every kid would go some distance to addressing the residual performance gap.
That said, we can't tackle this issue w/o looking at guns.
We have the evidence from around the world that the more difficult you make it to obtain a handgun the lower the number of shootings and gun-related crimes.
Our somewhat porous southern border makes the issue more challenging; but there's no question we can make it more difficult than it is today to get a handgun.
At the minimum we must tackle the strawman issue, by capping the number of legal handguns anyone can purchase; we can also increase the tax on the gun, retail. Yes, many criminal buy their guns illegally. But street value tends to
be x times retail. So the higher we make the retail price, and the tougher to get a gun, the higher the street price goes.
An Australian comic tackled this issue noting that in the U.S. you could legally order an AR-15 for $1,000 on Amazon. Can an Australian get one, even though they are illegal there? Sure. But they have to buy it on the black market, where the price is $34,000USD which tends to cut the majority of criminals out of the market.
At the opposite end, I would not be adverse to a total ban on handguns; this is essentially what Australia did.
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