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Originally Posted by scottbombedout
But why do some people in the US find it so hard to believe that guns might not be the answer everywhere in the world?
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Each culture makes their own calculations in terms of how much they rely on the police for security. If citizens of the UK feel they are better off with a gun ban, great.
It seems that anti-gun sentiment only bubbles up when there is some spectacular shooting event. The media runs the story into the ground because it makes good chum for the public. But even in the most horrific shooting situations, there are way, way more people killed in drunken driving accidents, something on the order of 43 a day! Why doesn't THAT make the press? Because those deaths, while completely preventable, have just become the 'cost of doing business' in a country where most own cars, and most drink.
This country also has a taste for drugs. Not just a taste, a ravenous appetite. Yet no one wants to confront THAT. On no, lets focus on the gun problem. Lets treat the symptom, and protect our silly Puritan ideas about ourselves as a people. Drugs? Well, that must be something that happens down there where those poor people live. BS, it ain't just inner city folks and the trailer trash doing drugs. Plenty of drugs in suburbia. Plenty of drugs in the apartments above Central Park. Mexico has literally almost failed as country because of US drug use.
Its an easy dodge to focus on the 'gun' problem.
If drugs were legal tomorrow, what would the level of gun violence be 1 year from now? 5 years from now?
I believe there would be steady and dramatic decline in gun violence.