Originally posted by: Jerry Ice 33
Those damn guns keep shooting themselves! And again, for the thousandth time, do you really think the bad guys and deranged won't be able to get a gun somehow?
How are the drug laws forbidding people buying drugs doing? Dems are so gullible. But again, that is why are they are the party widely considered as the "low-information party."
Sorry, Jerry, this idiot argument of yours is old, and tired, and shamefully wrong.
The choice is NEVER between completely preventing something bad and completely allowing it. Your argument is like saying we should either completely forbid driving or have no traffic laws at all. Or that we can't completely stop air and water pollution, so environmental regulations are pointless.
Obviously, if we make it harder for people to obtain guns, especially those used for mass killing, at least some of the wackadoodles won't be able to obtain them at all. If we make it illegal to sell them, it will likewise be harder to get them. I mean...DUHHHHHHH.
In point of fact, we can cut gun violence down by about 90% with strict enough laws. Why do I say 90%? Because Western Europe and Australia have about 10% the gun deaths per capita that we do, and those societies are quite similar to ours.
But let's say we collectively decide to keep our manly man guns but decide to take a few baby steps like actual background checks, banning assault weapons, no gun garage sales in a tent, that sort of thing. Let's say those incremental steps reduce American gun deaths by oh, twenty percent. That would be 9,000 fewer deaths per year.
JESUS, FUCK, ISN'T THAT WORTH DOING???
