Gun Control

[nihilistcat]

We spend a meager $4.8 billion per year on cancer research (we used to spend more, but we cut research funding). while we spend hundreds of billions on police and prisons, and trillions in the name of terrorism. For perspective, we lose about 10,900 people each year to gun violence, if we were to average out how likely getting killed in a terrorist attack is, we would find that it's less likely than being struck by lightening, while we suffer nearly 600,000 deaths each year due to cancer, nearly 8 million deaths per year worldwide, well over 100,000 deaths per year are attributed to poverty in the US (millions worldwide die each year because of poverty and hunger and preventable disease), while the DNC and RNC has their chickenhead disciples blithering on about spooky brown men, jihad, and gun control.

It seems like this sort of partisan posture is more about tribalism than substance (as an atheist, I find it sad that a bunch of self-proclaimed atheists are suckered by tribalism just as easily as the average religionist). I'm pretty sure everyone here is smarter enough to know better. 

I can see supporting the dems as the lesser of two evils (although I'm not even sure how sound that strategy is, considering the dems manage to placate the public and quell popular resistance), but otherwise, don't get your panties in a bunch for the DNC, as George Carlin said (I paraphrase), THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU.