Gun control for, "wealthy, white individuals who wish to be safe" Wow, just frickin' wow!

[krispos42]

233. Yes, yes... "Oh please, won't somebody think of the children???"

Right. Moral panic. Got it.

Of course, you use numbers that include adult or nearly so "children", and that number includes homicides, suicides, and accidents.

Because, of course, an angry or depressed parent couldn't kill their young children without a gun.


Look, your hysteria is part of the problem.

Your side's desperate attempt to change the culture in the same way it was changed about, for example, smoking, isn't going to make the kind of societal changes needed to bring about noticeable change.

Sorry, it's not. You keep hoping that one day, soon, a huge chunk of the 80 million or so gun owners in the country will just decide that guns, like smoking, is no longer socially acceptable and get rid of them. Your side pushes this every change it gets, with culture-war legislation such as "assault weapon" bans and magazine limits and whatever the hell California is doing.

Of course, "assault weapon" bans are targeted towards the types of guns (rifles) that are LEAST used to murder... about 300 people a year a murdered with rifles of all kinds.

20 times that number (TWENTY TIMES!!!!) are murdered with handguns. But your side focuses on a segment of the least-used-to-kill-people kind of guns...

So, your culture war results in two things: 1) even when fully enacted, zero lives are saved by the laws you get passed. The assault-weapon ban that Connecticut enacted in 1989 sure as hell didn't save those 20 kids and six teachers at Sandy Hook, now did it?

And 2), it puts fucking conservatives in political office.

Conservative economic policies kill far more people than any magazine-capacity limit could hope to save. Look at what's happening with Obamacare... conservative states are opting out, resulting in thousands of more annual deaths per year in states like Texas and Florida and Alabama and Georgia.

Preventable deaths, if given proper medical care like routine screenings and prompt treatments.

But those thousands of people a year are going to DIE because you, somehow, some way, think that banning rifles with protruding pistol grips is going to save lives.


What's making the rick richer, and the poor poorer?
Conservative economic policies.


What's keeping the entire country from getting universal single-payer health care?
Conservative economic policies?

What's keeping the prison-industrial complex alive and well?
Conservative economic policies.



So you need to wake up and realize that your side is expending the maximum amount of political capital for the least amount of political and real-life success. You're causing far more harm than good.