Wabbit wrote:
Out of the mouths of Babes
This poster (the picture, not the OP)is without a doubt the stupidest argument against gun safety there is.
Do you think laws against murder will stop murderers?
Do you think setting speed limits will eliminate speeders?
Do you think passing tax laws will eliminate tax cheats?
No one thinks the current laws will completely solve the problem of gun violence in this country. No one. But if we can protect peoples's second amendment rights while at the same time reducing the plague of gun violence, isn't it worth a try?
If people on the right would stop listening to the idiots in the NRA and realize that we are NOT after their guns, that there is no conspiracy to raid their homes, that the government is NOT an enemy, we might be able to get something done.
As with so much today, the right has not made a single policy suggestion to curb gun violence except to arm teachers. How do we keep people safe in movie theaters? How do we keep people safe in their front yards? How do we keep people safe from their spouses?
So keep your pistols. Every one of them. Keep your hunting rifles. Every one of them. But just as you have to take a vision test to drive a car, and a driving test to make sure you know how to use a car, let's make sure you're not a criminal. Let's make sure you know how to handle a gun. Let's make sure you're not mentally ill. Let's make sure that we minimize the damage you can do if you go over the edge. Let's make sure you can't kill a cop who's wearing a bulletproof jacket.
The government is not the enemy, there is no conspiracy against guns. For me, I just want to know my granddaughter is safe walking to school. Safe playing with her toys in the front yard. Safe when she goes to a football game on Friday night. Safe when her husband comes home drunk. Is that too much to ask?
There are proposed solutions out there to help accomplish this that do not limit the right to own guns. Except with the tired claim of "enforce existing laws", does any gun proponent have any suggestion as to how we solve the problem?