Once again there has been a shooting and there are immediate demands to ban guns. By this logic, we should ban cars. Vastly more people are killed in car accidents than by guns each year. Ban the car! Or maybe we should ban alcohol. I believe a majority of fatal car accidents involve alcohol. If we just ban alcohol, we could reduce car deaths. Of course, we tried banning alcohol and decided it was a failure. Even now the ban on marijuana is toppling in the states.
Interestingly, unlike the car, guns have an amendment in the Constitution denying the Federal Government from banning them. States and localities have enacted gun control laws that, oddly, seem to have the reverse of the intended effect. Washington DC and Chicago have some of the strictest gun control laws and also some of the highest murder rates.
Guns have been legal in the United States since its founding and yet these mass shootings did not happen until the 1970s and later. Why? The availability of guns is not the problem, otherwise we'd be able to point to school shootings in 1914, 1927, 1935, and so on. This is a modern phenomenon that can be traced to something that had changed in the last 40 or so years. I don't know what that is but it isn't that guns are legal.
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All gun control laws
should be GUN & BALLOT CONTROL laws
to test them for constitutionality and acceptance by the left.
We just had 8 months of the left crying about Voter Suppression and how you cant intimidate folks cause Voting Is A Right... well guns are a right too and should be simply grouped together.
If the left says we need Gun Permits,
CHANGE THAT TO GUN & BALLOT Permit
and the left will say we cant do that cause voting is a right.
If the left says they want $25 Gun Permit Fee,
change that to Gun&Ballot Permit fee, and the left will say you cant do that cause voting is a right.
If the left wants Tests before you get a gun permit, make that a test before getting Gun&Ballot permit.
Compare 2 billboards:
VoterFraud is a felony.
Use a Gun go to jail.
Which one is intimidating folks away from their rights? The gun one didnt point at an actual crime, but at using guns in entirety(legally) while the voting one specified a statutory illegal action. The left had no problems with the gun suppression billboards.
MAKE GUN & BALLOT CONTROL Laws,
to have the left say it cant be done cause its a constitutional right
Which of the below statements does the left hate:
We need to stop just anyone from getting Ballots.
We need to keep Ballots out of the wrong hands.
Its too easy for the wrong people to get ballots.
We need tighter Ballot control laws.
oddly, those are all battle crys of the left when you replace the right to vote word Ballots with the right to bear arms word Guns
Nicely put. You are getting better at offering an argument.
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