(August 26, 2018 at 10:49 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(August 26, 2018 at 10:42 pm)Khemikal Wrote: The benefit is that it's a wedge issue. There is no cost to the people who make the calculations.
It's also a form of identity politics.
Yes, and the real "identity" is the color GREEN.
The more the corporations who make firearms sell fear, use class and race and divide cops from blacks, and even tea party right who fear government, the more violence that happens the more weapons they sell.
It is the old Daffy Duck cartoon, where he sells booby traps to both the beagle and Foghorn, and says to both "You better watch out for the other guy."