Simplicity. Why gun control is a bamboozle. [View All]

[Pavulon]

Lets start with some very basic FACTS to begin with.

50% percent of gun death in the US is Suicide.
Violent crime is dropping, including shootings.
Cities with strict gun control have more violent crime.
Twenty percent of U.S. homicides occur in four cities with just 6% of the population—New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, D.C

WHY is gun control a bamboozle?

Gun control is used in PLACE of root cause analysis and FIXING the problems that cause gun deaths.
Lack of mental health care.
Drug Laws that create a black market economy. Unregulated transactions lead to violence. See any major city with a gang problem.
Poverty (and race) are DIRECTLY linked to gun violence. If you are black or latino and live in a city you are FAR more likely to be killed or jailed.
If you live in Telluride CO, Greenwich, or Martha Vineyard this problem does not impact you directly.
Guns are highly regulated already. There are thousands of laws on the books regulating sales, possession, and use of firearms.

Solution (something the Control people never have)

Legalize ALL drugs and transact sales in a regulated manner. People are not going to stop using drugs. Use money from sales to treat the medical conditions. Yes it sucks to sell people addictive and lethal chemicals but it is destroying communities now. Let the police concentrate on other criminal activity.

Make comprehensive mental health care available to all and make it private. Depression and mood disorders are lethal as cancer and the stigma attached kills people.

Take steps to destroy the "drug" culture. Drug culture is not "balck" culture. It does not make you a racist to attack the drug culture and call it out as a negative force in minority communities promoting ignorance, irresponsibility, and death.

The bamboozle is these things take effort and money. They are hard to do, even though they are morally and politically correct. So the people in power will continue to ignore these things and address guns as some sort of problem. There lies a great shame on our country.