How many gun tragedies will it take before the gun lovers relent?

[FLson]

50. We Have Many Many Many Many Problems

In this country. I've represented criminals who have used guns in crimes. Everything from beat up Glocks to hundred plus year old black powder little 32 caliber revolvers that are likely more dangerous to the users than the would-be victims. These criminals have been juveniles and men over fifty (had one 62 year old).

If we address the problems of entrenched poverty, lack of safety nets that mobilize people to attain jobs, lack of job creation and wage growth, end the war on drugs (shift from a penal plan to a recovery plan), lack of single payer health care (or at least a public option in extending Medicare to all), many of these problems in involving guns would go away.

You can remove guns from this country but not the motivation to commit murder. When Orlando was having its peak murders back in 2008 (or '07 can't remember exactly), most of the people killed were being stabbed to death and were affiliated with drug dealing so gun control wouldn't have addressed those deaths.

Plus, gun control has become commercialized in my opinion with Bloomberg having entered the foray. I'd rather focus on making the country better for everybody, and helping the broken and the damned. I've personally helped people escape homelessness and created businesses that paid better wages than what the people were previously earning.

A candidate's stance will not be a deciding factor for me in voting. It's going to be about what are they doing to help people.