Charleston church shooting: Without gun control, racism will keep killing black people

[DanTex]

68. "Extreme" according to you. From the perspective of the world, the laws are sensible

and valuable in that they prevent other countries from descending to the levels of gun violence we have here. It's like conservatives arguing that universal healthcare is "communist" even though it works much better than the US system in basically everywhere it's been tried.

And, actually, silencers are legal, they are just NFA regulated. And I'm fine with that. Stick handguns and semi-auto rifles in the NFA and we'd be in business. You can have them, but they are registered, and you need to go through an extensive background check with fingerprints and the whole works. You think that this kid's father would have bought him a handgun when he turned 21 if we had those laws in place? Do you even think the kid could have passed the NFA background check?

In fact, handguns almost were part of NFA, and if they had been, probably a million or so American lives would have been saved by now.

I am not trying to convince you that you are either conservative or racist. I am simply bringing to light the bizarre idea that we shouldn't talk about gun control in the aftermath of a massacre, something that makes as little sense as not wanting to talk about hate crimes laws in the aftermath of a hate crime.