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In reply to the discussion: Should America work towards becoming a gun-free Country? [View all]NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Sorry, your fear is irrational. You state everyone knows someone affected by it. I'm sure everyone knows someone affected by auto accidents, cancer and heart disease as well. In in far greater numbers too!
If you actually wanted to reduce gun violence, you would focus on topics like ending the war on drugs, dramatically increasing the minimum wage, implementing jobs programs in urban areas, and expanding our economic aid programs (like heavily subsidized national child care). You do not focus on those because ending gun violence is not your goal. Your goal is control of people, not guns.
And yes, the right wing uses gun control to divide. It's actually an oddity, as right wing ideology usually couldn't give a damn about equal rights from the Bill of Rights. I'm a Liberal. Liberals believe in equal rights for all and in fighting to ensure everyone has the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. And we work to introduce new human rights, like health care and marriage equality. Liberals believe in upholding the Bill of Rights.
The gun control movement on the other hand is more like the prohibition movement. The Prohibition movement sincerely thought they were making the country a better place by banning alcohol, and considered themselves progressive. The result was a disaster. One of the consequences was a virtual cultural genocide of German American heritage.
Millions of Democrats own firearms and do so peacefully. Why do you go after us? Does the image of me hunting for deer upset you just like two men kissing and holding hands upsets the religious right?