This is really getting to be some tired shit..... I prefer that nobody has guns, no private individuals, no police. Is that going to happen? NO. So, the only logical option is to enforce rules that take guns away from mentally ill, high-risk people, elaborate background checks, make it very difficult to get guns. Is that going to happen? NO. Not if red state redneck motherfuckers perceive anything as a violation of their "rights". This is the wild west, and most of the country is dumber than dirt.
After a Texas family asked a neighbor to stop shooting a gun in his yard because their baby was trying to sleep, he came over and killed 5 people with an AR-15 style rifle, police say. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...&cvid=7ae0f0beb46549e495cf3c4db8c65508&ei=109
This was obviously a well adjusted person who snapped because they had a piece of metal in their possession.
Well the bullets come out of the gun, where do you want us to focus? After all these innocent people getting murdered and still people support this? Wonder if any gun rights people have had their own children ripped apart by hot metal?
I would prefer we focus on why so many people WANT to hurt each other in our country. As that's the only way to address this. It doesn't matter what law you try to pass regarding what tool. It will not make anything better until people actually stop wanting to hurt each other. I've never seen a case of a person going from a happy and healthy individual to a murderer simply by possessing a machine. Of course, accidents happen, and we should be educating people to reduce the frequency and severity of those accidents. But guns are actually already regulated. To the point that increasing regulation doesn't appear to make much of a difference. Gun crime, along with all violent crime, rises and falls based on the amount of desperate people in society. Reducing that is what we should be focusing on. Focusing on the gun is simply a distraction from focusing on the real problems. Increase access to education, healthcare, and improve the social safety net. Investments in R&D.
I’ll just stop you at that first sentence….. how about we stop making guns until you figure that out.
We tried that with alcohol. It didn't work. It was simply a distraction that caused more harm than good. We tried that woth marijuana (and shrooms). That didn't work either. It was simply a distraction that caused more harm than good. Why would it work with guns? Prohibition of popular things has never worked. That's what the gun debate is. A distraction which is causing more harm than good by preventing us from focusing on the real problems in our country.
Cigarettes were quite popular in the past. But 'cigarette control' laws worked to reduce the number of people who used cigarettes, and to reduce the harm to bystanders. barfo
There has been no law prohibiting all manufacture of cigarettes as was suggested for guns, and has been attempted with the other items I listed. There are cigarette laws, just as there are gun laws. I have never suggested there should be no gun laws. Everyone who uses cigarettes will eventually die from it. This is not even in the same ball park as guns.
