02-03-2016, 12:15 AM
The real point, which is never honestly addressed, is not gun control. Most gun control targets long guns that are used in such a minuscule amount of crimes as to be almost statistically insignificant. It's a lame, pandering, attempt to score points with frightened voters. The real issue is the inane war on drugs. The failed attempt to replicate the exact circumstances of prohibition, only with different substances and an identical result. Every politician looking to promote themselves with their latest bullshit gun control legislation and every lobbyist attempting to curb them are only addressing a symptom of the disease. Until we, as a nation, acknowledge that criminalizing most drugs only perpetuates violence and funnels money, by the truckload, into the black market this is all a bunch of pissing in the wind. You could ban all guns tomorrow and it would do jack shit to the murder rate. You could legalize all, I'd prefer most, drugs tomorrow and the murder rate would plummet.
Keep fixating on the symptom kids, not the disease.
Keep fixating on the symptom kids, not the disease.
