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If Only AR-15 Murder-Scene Photos Would Bring About an Assault Weapons Ban
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Which then brings us back to how every other country that has tried it has obviously failed. Because obviously, numbers don't scale.
But please, continue to blow more smoke over the issue. Tell us again how we've done nothing, and we're all out of ideas.
You're right, I've not presented any potential solutions. All I've said is fund public health initiatives, address the systemic issues that are leading to violence, and enact sane limits on firearms sales.
But please, go ahead and continue misrepresenting my argument if it makes you feel better.
Except the party that wants to get rid of guns wants to do those things, and the one that doesn't want to get rid of guns doesn't want any of those things, and people still vote for the latter because they want guns.
I vote Democrat because there's nobody viable who's farther left. I'll admit it's frustrating as a gun owner because so many Democrats are tremendously ignorant on the issue, but I agree with them a hell of a lot more than Republicans.
I just want non insane or just plain ignorant gun laws and a decent social safety net, is that too much to ask?
Considering a decent social safety net will "hurt the economy" and "prevent job growth" it is in fact too much to ask
Won't someone think of the poor multinational corporations that might lose half of a percent of their annual earnings. Hell, they might not make their yearly 5 percent growth targets!
No, the party that wants to get rid of guns says it wants to do those things, but doesn't actually follow through. In states and cities with Democratic veto-proof super-majorities, most of the things that Dems say they want still doesn't happen. Take, for instance, affordable housing. We can all agree that good housing that was cheap enough to afford for anyone working full-time--including at minimum wage--is a good thing, right? So we shouldn't have any problem changing the zoning in an already residential area to allow high-density affordable housing, right? And yet, as soon as the cards are down, Dems turn into NIMBY. Sure, we want to house homeless people, but not near me. Reform criminal justice, but also arrest these black people trying to have a barbecue in a public park. Decriminalize drugs, but arrest the homeless junkies near my Whole Foods.
And I will point out that the states that have Deocratic super-majorities--California, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, etc.--still don't adequately fund all the shit that would actually solve the underlying problems that lead to violence. (I know for a fact that Illinois has moved money away from public schools to charter and magnet schools, while the public schools in Chicago are literally falling apart.)