These are good points you say here Jason: Give people the freedom to pursue their own spiritual path.
Give people access to a job, or to capital. There are some bright people out there who can open a factory and make widgets!
Give people the freedom to pursue happiness.
Give people some basic education. Teach them to love their community and their homeland.
Give people the right to choose their own leaders.
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Oddly the guns are not mentioned...
Superimpose the list now on the problems like riots, tyrannical systems, and you see what you have to do.
How do you regulate these bad, dark elements? Here you can compare to the average human and you see what problems guns lead to.
Gun crimes in China are also on the rise, with armed robberies, shootouts and some high profile murders using illegal firearms. A 2008 case involving guards at a munitions dumped who got involved in an argument over a chess match that then devolved into one gunning the other down before being shot to death by the police. In 2013, a Shanghai man murdered six people at the factory he worked at over a financial dispute with a hunting rifle. A man with a history of mental illness killed two of his neighbors and two police officers in Hubei, a province in northern China, with a shotgun before being shot dead by police. 2016 saw two high profile shootings: a man in Guangdong province killed three people and injured another three over an apparent land issue before being captured by police. A judge in Beijing was murdered outside her home by a disgruntled litigant before the attackers killed themselves with a homemade gun. The most recent case, involved Chen Zhongshu, a senior official in Sichuan province, who shot the local mayor and party chief before turning the gun on himself. How Chen acquired the firearm is still a mystery https://encyclopediageopolitica.com/2017/02/15/the-tao-of-the-gun-chinas-gun-culture/