Comment by narrator
2 years ago
Let me guess, the solution is ban guns and pay higher taxes. That is the solution to literally every single problem in human history according to western sociology.
Then you get some guy like Nayib Bukele who cuts the Gordian Knot of societal disfunction going from the highest murder rate in the world to the lowest in the western hemisphere in 3 years short years by putting all the gangsters in prison. All the "surplus elite" NGO people who spent their entire career ineffectually addressing "the root causes of crime" are all now out of a job and/or very upset.
> In early October, El Salvador’s police announced the seizure of 2,026 firearms, including 1,371 pistols and other small arms
> Imports of certain high-caliber firearms are prohibited. Arms for personal defense or hunting may be imported but are strictly controlled
No open carry either. Sounds like gun control to me. It goes way beyond “putting gangsters in prison” and a large part of the plan is investment in education to get kids away from this path.
One thing to note is the 72000 in prison did not receive a life sentence. They will be released at some point, and one has to trust that the “integration” part of the plan will work.
There are also an infinite amount of reports of police abuse, violence, unlawful imprisonment, and media being silenced. We’ll only know the true cost of this many years from now.
In my armchair opinion, there will always be crime, but the magnitude of gun violence is incredible. Kids get shot at parks near me because bullets don't stop. Guns are great at that, spreading violence across an area of intention, and from a distance.
If there were any simple solution, we'd have done that, but even with the idea of "banning guns" nothing has significantly progressed in that department because of loopholes and powerful gun advocates.
So anytime anyone complains of "banning guns" I laugh because nothing has changed.
This will probably greatly interest you:
https://mattlakeman.org/2024/03/30/notes-on-el-salvador/
It's amazing how surprised everyone was that the whole thing worked phenomenally well. It went against a century of "expert" advice. It literally did the exact opposite. The purpose of the system is what it does [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
What kind of expert advice did it go against? Honestly sounds like the obvious approach, I think the controversy is around the authoritarian aspects of the whole thing.