(March 1, 2015 at 10:23 pm)abaris Wrote:In what way? Cigarettes kill more than guns. Tobacco is easily controllable, but public interest and big money are not letting it happen. To stop tobacco only requires the simple law of making the purchase of tobacco products illegal for anyone born after March 1, 1994. No new smokers and the present ones will eventually die. Tobacco gone.(March 1, 2015 at 10:14 pm)IATIA Wrote: They have not got rid of cigarettes yet and everyone, including smokers, knows what an extreme health hazard it is.But there's a big difference there.
The tobacco companies are not going to let that happen anymore than the gun companies and public demand will shut down gun manufacture and ownership.
The three big killers are automobiles, tobacco and guns. None are going away. Simple licensing would help the gun issues, but automobiles are licensed and there are laws against DUI/DWI that have not stopped the senseless deaths of innocents. If we cannot stop tobacco, we have not a chance with guns. Any laws against guns will just make a lot of outlaws with little effect on overall ownership. In the end, there will always be the black market. And, push come to shove, one can make a gun, as was pointed out in an earlier post.
We need to change the system that allows 'passing the blame'. "I ran someone down, sue the bar", "I shot my kid, sue Remington", "I got cancer, sue Phillip Morris", "I drove too fast and missed 'dead man's curve', sue Ford", "I spilled my coffee, sue McDonald", "I live below sea level and got flooded, sue the government". Teaching and enforcing responsibility of choices is the ultimate solution.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
