Multiple people on this forum have said that should be our goal over time. Statistics are often cited not just here but other places in public debate comparing our level of violence to that of other countries. It seems self-evident that the point of those comparisons is to say it's wrong for the US not to be at that level.
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Originally Posted by bhlloy
aren’t there other steps that can at least be a step in the right direction and can help limit the chances where somebody can kills tens of people in a couple of minutes?
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Absolutely. There are definitely voices in the public realm that are saying basically do nothing but I don't agree with them and I don't think any of them are represented on this forum.
What I do say, is that ideas like background checks, limiting mass ammo purchases, all the others that have come up will still end up with us much closer to where we are now than to that kind of goal. That doesn't mean do nothing. It does mean that if that's what we do we're also choosing to have a very elevated level of gun violence by comparison to other nations, just perhaps a somewhat less elevated level than we currently have. That's particularly true since the gun culture in America has always been an outlier, so even with identical laws we'd still end up with more people choosing to arm themselves by comparison.
'We shouldn't do anything' and 'these steps are good, but won't get anywhere near the goal' are much different statements. My perception is they are being badly conflated.