What a joke. 51% of Americans want a ban on handguns? Wow, tell me nobody is stupid enough to believe that. Was this a poll of a few blocks in downtown NYC?
The reason Republicans and all intelligent people don't support a ban on a small percentage of guns is because that could not possibly make anyone any safer. This idiot in Newtown killed 26 people in 20 minutes. You don't need some sort of insane firepower to do that, he could have done it with a single shot shotgun 100 years old. I have some that were made in the '30s. They're still functional, and you could easily, without trying, get a shot off every 5 seconds.
The point is that we all want to get rid of gun violence. That's why everyone is basically for some sort of gun law reform. However, the difference between gun control nuts and others is whether you consider the gun part of the gun violence equation to be the problem, or whether you think it's the violence part that's the problem.
I've said it many times. There is not gun violence. There is not baseball bat violence, boxing glove violence, piano wire violence, or any other weapon violence. There is only people violence. If you want to truly get rid of gun violence, you must ban all guns. Every last civilian owned gun. As long as you're banning very small numbers of guns, there will remain close to 88 guns per 100 Americans. People otherwise will always be able to get guns. What parents have you ever known to successfully hide a cookie jar?
Until we start talking about why there is people violence and what we can do to address the issue, we'll never even get started on violence itself. We can scapegoat AR-15s and 12 round magazines as long as we want, but it will not change anything. It doesn't stop anyone from using a gun to kill a person. And really, as long as there are guns, nothing, no laws, no restrictions, no nothing will stop a person from killing someone with a gun. The only cure for violence is for people to stop wanting to be violent.
Personally I think it's all about education, but that's another topic for another day. I assume you're a democrat, therefore, you idiot liberals love running your 1.5tn deficits every year because a marginal number of people are employed by that insane amount of money, all the while you tell us we need to cut education. Really? We spend 2% on education, and Obama wants to cut it more. Is that where we draw the line? We'll ban a few guns here and there so HOPEFULLY nobody ever mass murders at a gun free zone ever again, but then we're going to cut education and make it harder and harder for you children to get the tools you need to be successful in life. Yep, hopefully you live, but after that, screw you.
Education is a major problem in our country, and is only getting worse. One day we'll have to do something about it, and I hope it won't be after we raise entire generations of kids who don't know how to make anything of themselves. Education can't stop the mentally ill, but maybe it could prevent some of the senseless gang violence.
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