Why should I be afraid of revealing my address? I mean, if you show up, I won't let you in, but that's got nothing to do with fear. Conservatives like to play tough guys, but you're all so AFRAID...
I'm not anti-gun regulation, but this meme seems to imply that there aren't good answers to 'What other than common sense gun regulation is lacking?', which seems unlikely.
The US does have a very high gun homicide rate, but it also has a high non-gun homicide rate. By all means tighten your gun regulation if it makes you feel safer, but there must be other societal issues contributing to this problem. There's a danger here of gun regulation being pushed because it's simple, but scapegoating the whole issue onto that one thing would prevent a wider evaluation of all the possible problems.
One thing at a time. What you are saying is akin to saying "sure, cigarettes contribute to lung cancer, but why scapegoat them because it would prevent us from researching other causes of cancer?" Why would focusing on gun control keep us from dealing with other causes of violence?
Because availability is not causal, while shredded social safety nets, failed upward mobility, and the trillion dollar death machine that is the Drug War are.
No, what I said is that this meme uses a rhetorical question that implies that there aren't good sensible answers to this problem other than gun regulation... that narrow attitude definitely doesn't help people take a broad approach to this issue
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The US does have a very high gun homicide rate, but it also has a high non-gun homicide rate. By all means tighten your gun regulation if it makes you feel safer, but there must be other societal issues contributing to this problem. There's a danger here of gun regulation being pushed because it's simple, but scapegoating the whole issue onto that one thing would prevent a wider evaluation of all the possible problems.
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