(June 21, 2016 at 6:27 pm)Rhythm Wrote: We could have made two announcements and ended -all- statistically significant gun death in this country.......
-Universal mental healthcare, specifically suicide prevention, 60% of gun deaths annually.
-The end of the war on drugs, the remaining 40%.
...but...we'll probably squander political capital on "gun control" instead...like we always do, thus ensuring that neither of those stats registers a blip.
No! It is not "squander" to say that love of weapons isnt' more important than reducing violence to get rid of weapons.
Those stats don't change, because more guns are good, they don't change because humans are tribal.