It's funny how similar gun violence is to threats of terrorism. Both sides play it up, acting like Joe Schmoe should be worried about being randomly shot/blown up.
But that's just not real. It's just getting people wound up for votes. 10000 homicides a year. A small fraction of those are non-handguns. And a small fraction of that is something other than criminal on criminal violence. And a small fraction of all of that, is guns that were purchased at a gun show/store.
In the end, amazing gun control laws prevents a couple hundred deaths? Maybe. In a country of 300,000,000 people are we really losing our shit over a few hundred people? So much that this is a major priority that people are losing sleep over?
I don't care about guns, but I'm uninvested in them being more strictly regulated/banned because I'm almost certainly not going to get shot, just like I'm not going to get hit by lightning, or eaten by a shark, or blown up by a terrorist. The risk is incredibly tiny for most Americans.
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The easy example I use to show it's all BS is alcohol. 10,000 drunk driving deaths a year (36 a day). 1.1 million DUI's a year. Then you've got spousal abuse, child abuse, rape, sexual assault, regular assault, disease, suicide, life ruining addiction, and on and on. And it's not a few 1000, it's millions of incidents.
Why no push for getting rid of alcohol? It's all about sacrifice? It costs nothing for Carl the Republican in Oklahoma to ban all Muslims. It costs nothing for Hippy Joe who has no interest in owning firearms to restrict the rights of others to own firearms.
But Carl and Joe both like their booze and pot, and shockingly, neither has any interest in trying to save lives going after those, because it'd actually cost them something. And politicians know those are losing issues, so they certainly aren't going to address it.
https://www.ncadd.org/about-addiction/al...-and-crime
It's all just a big jerkoff.
But that's just not real. It's just getting people wound up for votes. 10000 homicides a year. A small fraction of those are non-handguns. And a small fraction of that is something other than criminal on criminal violence. And a small fraction of all of that, is guns that were purchased at a gun show/store.
In the end, amazing gun control laws prevents a couple hundred deaths? Maybe. In a country of 300,000,000 people are we really losing our shit over a few hundred people? So much that this is a major priority that people are losing sleep over?
I don't care about guns, but I'm uninvested in them being more strictly regulated/banned because I'm almost certainly not going to get shot, just like I'm not going to get hit by lightning, or eaten by a shark, or blown up by a terrorist. The risk is incredibly tiny for most Americans.
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The easy example I use to show it's all BS is alcohol. 10,000 drunk driving deaths a year (36 a day). 1.1 million DUI's a year. Then you've got spousal abuse, child abuse, rape, sexual assault, regular assault, disease, suicide, life ruining addiction, and on and on. And it's not a few 1000, it's millions of incidents.
Why no push for getting rid of alcohol? It's all about sacrifice? It costs nothing for Carl the Republican in Oklahoma to ban all Muslims. It costs nothing for Hippy Joe who has no interest in owning firearms to restrict the rights of others to own firearms.
But Carl and Joe both like their booze and pot, and shockingly, neither has any interest in trying to save lives going after those, because it'd actually cost them something. And politicians know those are losing issues, so they certainly aren't going to address it.
https://www.ncadd.org/about-addiction/al...-and-crime
It's all just a big jerkoff.
