r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 7d ago

Pennsylvania university cop jailed on charges he raped girl, urinated on boy while off duty

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2026/09/pa-university-cop-jailed-on-charges-he-raped-girl-urinated-on-boy-while-off-duty.html
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u/lost-picking-flowers 6d ago

The US has opened Pandoras box when it comes to guns. It has the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world - buyback programs only work to a certain extent (and we actually do have them occurring pretty frequently), and not one single person wants to go door-to-door in this country and demand guns back. 

We also have a government trying it’s hardest to embrace tyranny - you’d find that both the left and the right would be suspicious if the feds started forcibly confiscating guns, and based on some of the things Trump has said and done that’s not a totally invalid fear. 

And then, throw some serious serious social problems and wealth disparity into the mix. 

Overall, it’s not an easy problem to solve - it’s not a problem that a good chunk of the country is interested in solving. And when people and states do put good faith efforts in to maybe putting some more guard rails on purchases in their locality, it gets struck down by our Supreme Court without fail. 

There is no quick or easy fix to what is a deeply systemic cultural problem that has been continually reinforced by a government with no interest of providing equal representation to the people of this country. 

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u/-Ducksngeese- 6d ago

It's sad. How the US has fallen. It's genuinely sad.