So many things better regulated in the US than guns.

[tblue]

I have a jar of freaking PEANUT BUTTER that Costco has recalled because that batch got some bacteria in it or something. They are taking it back and giving me a refund.

You can't sell contaminated peanut butter (thankfully!) because it might make someone sick. But an assault rifle you can get at a trade show.

Toys get recalled all the time. Spinach has been yanked from stores. Baby cribs and car seats, if they cause kids harm, the gov't is all over the it. As it should be.

You're not supposed to have a dang dog without a license! If it's a pitbull you have to go through more red tape.

Pick anything else in your house. If it's deadly or injurious, it is strictly monitored if not taken out of circulation. Why can't we recall guns? Why can't we better monitor their use? Truth is, WE CAN!

[Loudly]

1. I can't believe conservative talkers brought up the Bath School bombing today.

Use of dynamite to murder children in Michigan in 1927?

If you had to jump through the same hoops to buy a gun today as you do to buy dynamite, that would such better preventative control of gun proliferation!

[Fumesucker]

2. We have a common weed widely acknowledged to be non poisonous that's completely illegal

We send tens of thousand of people to jail and prison just for having this weed every damn year.

ETA: We send black helicopters out to fly over and look for this weed with sensitive spy instruments and then send squads of men out to dig it up and burn it.

It is insane.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. People want to know how to protect schools. Right wingers say "let teachers be armed".

I say, we spend $60 Billion or so on the DEA every year. That's a lot of SWAT Teams, helicopters, and dudes making overtime so they can fly around looking for some chemo patient's pot plant.

How about taking them off cancer granny brownie patrol, and putting them to work protecting the nation's elementary schools?

[Fumesucker]

4. I love it and I hate it

I love it because it kills two birds with one stone, I hate it because it puts those DEA creeps in contact with impressionable young kids on a regular basis.

Take the money and equipment but the personnel I'm not so sure about, that would need to be done on an individual basis.

I also am not comfortable turning schools into armed fortresses, the further down that road we venture the harder it will be to turn around and the further back.

You should put this up as an OP, it's an idea worth discussing.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Just sort of popped into my head.

I mean, if we end the friggin drug war- and we should- these people are going to need stuff to do.

[LeftInTX]

5. Antibiotics, birth control pills