What do guns, hijabs, and circumcision have in common?

[enchanted]

I've been struggled to understanding why year after year of world record-breaking gun violence, gun control is not passed in the US. 

Then I realized it's the same reason circumcision, and the hijab and other ridiculous things society does continue to be done. The answer boils down to tradition. Despite the ridiculous justifications for them and the obvious harms they do, societies have a hard time dropping something that is routed in national identity. 

Any thoughts? Did I miss something or get something wrong? 

Other things we cling to are hot water tanks, gas cars,  and shingle roofs. The alternatives are much better in my opinion. They might cost more but last longer and are superior in every way. 

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[Leo Gura]

Culture.

And there are so many guns in the USA that you cannot ban them all.

[Basman]

Guns, god and government. Holy trinity.

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[enchanted]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Culture.

Yes

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And there are so many guns in the USA that you cannot ban them all.

There so many hijabs in the middle East, there are so many circumcisors too. Doesn't mean you can't get rid of them. 

What other countries have done is create incentives to give up existing guns, and ban sales of new guns. This creates a shortage and it makes it all the more difficult for those fringe crazy people to get them. 

If it's illegal to have a gun parents would probably hide them better (just like when weed was illegal people hid it more). Then their screen addicted, emotionally neglected, disenfranchised, disillusioned teenage son might not be able to grab it so easily. 

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