A sincere wish for our DU gun owners: visit Norway!

[CTyankee]

42. Again, I favor encouragement of learning different ways to solve our gun problems in this country.

I'm fine with improving our social safety net and I think it is important, too. But your basic point seems to be that we just can't do anything, not anything at all, to change our violent situation in this country. When I was growing up in Texas in the 1950s I simply never saw/heard or experienced much about guns, even tho some members of my family went dove hunting every September. I knew they had guns but I never saw them. Nobody talked out needing this gun or that gun for self defense, I never handled a gun, my parents never used them, my uncle who was a state senator was concerned about increasing paved roads and highways and never discussed guns, I never felt unsafe, nobody walked around openly carrying guns in public. Oh, and Texas got rich on fossil fuel extraction, too. Oh, and members of my family held old, staid Protestant views.

No, we don't need to be Norwegians in many, many cultural ways, but we CAN learn from them in some ways.