(February 14, 2016 at 5:30 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:(February 14, 2016 at 4:41 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: My opinion is that you don't fight gun violence by banning guns, I think you have fight factors like poverty, poor health care, and poor working conditions, which in turn create healthier happier communities. When you work people to death for low wages, stress them out, take away their hope, and then sell them a deadly weapon, you are asking for trouble.
I'm all for fighting economic inequality in America, but let's not be stupid and hold out for that getting resolved when people aren't safe right now for being denied an effective means of defending themselves - they don't have decades to wait. Anyway, I thought that Utopia masturbation was equally ideological to religious ideas. If we can improve this world at all, it will likely take many years.
A utopia will never happen. We can improve conditions. There will always be sickos no matter how good things are though.
