I've always politically leaned left. But I never bought into the gun control crusade. Sure the NRA opposes good laws now and again (generally for the benefit of the gun industry) -- and gun nuts strike me as pathologically paranoid too. However, the reality is they gun control advocates never really connected the dots for how cracking down on legal guns is going to get rid of illegal guns.
What about Sandy Hook? This mentally stable Connecticut kindergarten teacher owns guns, her mentally addled son gets a hold of them and shoots up the kids. Then I hear all this shit about better mental health screening for guns...but he didn't buy the guns did he?; the woman that will pass any test we come up with did.
It strikes me as a waste of Political capital. There are more important issues to tackle in society than legal gun ownership. Maybe we should look at reasons people shoot other people in the first place and try to address those issues.
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