Why gun control is doomed

[Shamash]

150. I didn't ask the Australian public, I asked -you-

Which is better, dealing with the root causes of violence in society, or superficial measures that do not address those causes?

Take your time. A simple knee-jerk response won't be sufficiently embarrassing to the cause of gun control and I want to make sure you work yourself up to something that makes you look as intolerant, irrational, uninformed and emotion-driven as possible when it comes to demanding fear-based coercive measures against your fellow citizens.

That is, if you hadn't realized it, attitudes like yours are what drive gun sales in the United States. Because of fear-mongering by people like you in the wake of Newtown, people in the US went out and bought 1 million more guns than normal in the following month. The NRA made 6 million dollars from new memberships because of people like you. How much of that do you think would have happened if the voices calling for regulation had been reasoned and calm instead of emotional and outraged and demanding?

So go back to whatever comments you made in the wake of Newtown or any other event and give yourself a big pat on the back for anything that contributed to increasing the number of guns out there.

And thanks for the example. Your partner at the time had his life unchanged both before and after gun ownership. Or, after and before. Which means society had no problem with him as an individual either way.

Which kind of makes my point. Him losing his gun did absolutely squat to affect the gun crime rate in Australia because he was not part of the problem. Right? And as a liberal, you should err to the side of increased tolerance. Right?