Is the goal reasonable gun control laws, or is the goal saving lives?

[Alva Goldbook]

84. I don't think it's a question of false choices.

It's a question of what are the most effective policies. If you watched the video I linked, you would understand that poverty and income inequality is at the root of an incredible number of problems we have in this country.

We are unique in the world in many regards. We have a ton of guns and we have a 2nd amendment. But there are nations like the UK and Japan where almost no one has a gun, and they have very few gun deaths. And then there are nations like Sweden and Canada, which have a lot of guns and they also have very few gun deaths.

Maryland and Louisiana have very different gun laws. And they both have very high firearm homicide rates. Wyoming and Hawaii also have very different gun laws, and they both have very few firearm homicide rates. Maybe the answer isn't gun control, and maybe the answer isn't more guns. Maybe the answer is something else entirely. Like poverty and income inequality.

In Bowling For Columbine, Michael Moore asked the question, "What makes us so different as a nation?" When Canada has about as many guns per household as the US, and they have less than 300 gun murders and we have 12,000, I gotta think that what makes us different is that we have the income inequality of freaking Zimbabwe.