RE: Congress bans the CDC from doing study on gun violence
October 5, 2015 at 1:14 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2015 at 1:15 pm by Minimalist.)
For the thousandth (at least) time, there is no single answer to the problem. The Second Amendment thread is full of stories of supposedly law-abiding citizens with guns who do something stupid and (i.e. blow their own balls off) because the problem with guns is not the "law-abiding" part. It is that people do stupid shit and they do it all the time and when you do it with a gun someone may get shot.
The second point is this notion of "self-defense." Pure 'Murrican mythology.
Third, Gun Nut Nation pretends that the laws that are in effect are not enforced now. That's bullshit. The problem is that they are easily circumvented. In Chicago, the police have traced 1/3 of the guns seized to a single gun shop just across the city line where Chicago's laws do not apply.
Fourth, I don't know why we have so many nuts running around loose. But we do. I can't believe that other industrialized nations do not have nuts of their own but for one reason or another they do not seem to get their hands on guns with any great degree of frequency. So while improved mental health care is desirable so is limiting the ability of nuts to get their hands on guns in the first place.
With a congress that thinks praying to fucking jesus is a viable alternative to reasonable discussion the thought of getting them to tackle any problem - let alone a problem with multiple facets - seems forlorn. So I imagine we will do what Stephen Colbert said we will do. Pretend that it will never happen again....until next time.
And there will be a next time.
The second point is this notion of "self-defense." Pure 'Murrican mythology.
Third, Gun Nut Nation pretends that the laws that are in effect are not enforced now. That's bullshit. The problem is that they are easily circumvented. In Chicago, the police have traced 1/3 of the guns seized to a single gun shop just across the city line where Chicago's laws do not apply.
Fourth, I don't know why we have so many nuts running around loose. But we do. I can't believe that other industrialized nations do not have nuts of their own but for one reason or another they do not seem to get their hands on guns with any great degree of frequency. So while improved mental health care is desirable so is limiting the ability of nuts to get their hands on guns in the first place.
With a congress that thinks praying to fucking jesus is a viable alternative to reasonable discussion the thought of getting them to tackle any problem - let alone a problem with multiple facets - seems forlorn. So I imagine we will do what Stephen Colbert said we will do. Pretend that it will never happen again....until next time.
And there will be a next time.
