Originally posted by: Don
Boilerman will be pleased to learn that the Portland ( aka: Beervana ) has come up with a solution to the referenced gun violence occuring there: Billboard Campaign to Address Gun Violence
The citizens of the City shouldl be able to sleep more soundly, once the billboards are in place.
"the Portland," as DonDiego refers to it, did not pay for and put up the billboards. It was the work of a small private organization. In Oregon, there's something called free speech, a concept which most conservatives oppose and of which DonDiego may be only dimly aware.
The billboards were never intended to be a solution to gun violence. At least though, Portland is a liberal city and thus, the billboards don't say, "GO AHEAD, N*****S, KILL EACH OTHER, THAT WAY YOU WON'T BE VOTING," the way they would in, say, Texas.
An argument can be made that even a simple measure such as this can raise public awareness and meaningfully contribute to future solutions. However, it would be futile to put up billboards in gun-love MAGA yahoo red states. Not because the Tuckerheads would burn the billboards down--because they wouldn't be able to read them.
Portland, by the way, despite all the Fox News propaganda and the RepubliQ's racist bleats about the quadrillions of dollars' worth of damage done during the BLM protests (who knew that a dumpster fire was so costly?), is a wonderful place to live, and much more peaceful than any RepubliQ red-state pesthole where everybody and his rottweiler carries GUNZ.